Go thither, good cavaliers, and save my unhappy children, if there is still time; but there will be, if you hasten.'
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba
But Professor Van Twiller is married, and William and Professor Smawl ought to be, and altogether, considering the mammoth and that gigantic and splendid apparition that bent from the zenith to the ocean and sent a tidal-wave rolling from the palm of one white hand—I say, taking all these various matters under consideration, I think I shall decide to remain in New York and continue writing for the scientific periodicals.
— from In Search of the Unknown by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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