XXXIII. of the Chants du Crépuscule, Dans L’Église de.... “C’était une humble église au cintre surbaissé, L’église où nous entrâmes, Où depuis trois cents ans avaient déjà passé, Et pleuré des âmes.”
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Meanwhile the news of the daring venture and brilliant exploits of Alan and Alexis and their comrades spread like wildfire through the island, and everyone who was not engaged on duties that could not be left came to the settlement to see and congratulate the two heroes of the hour, whose strange and romantic fate, so well known to every Aerian, had thus suddenly been glorified by the triumph of the genius and daring which had proved capable of wresting victory from defeat and glory from misfortune.
— from Olga Romanoff by George Chetwynd Griffith

Besides her salary, which of course varies with the rank and the duties performed, but is always liberal enough to cover the necessary expenses of dress, the court lady receives many presents from the Emperor and Empress, which make her position one of much luxury.
— from Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Alice Mabel Bacon

The next European who attempted to get through without a passport would have no end of difficulties to contend with (Illust. 200).
— from Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Sven Anders Hedin

He understood as a matter of course, and as he was intended to understand—when he found any of the family near by—that he was not expected or desired to come again.
— from Oldfield: A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks

Not a man, not a woman can be spared from the great task in which they are now engaged, of defeating the common enemy.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Illa .—"No; there was no eating or drinking: the charm did it all."
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 by Wilhelm Meinhold