Nobody else will ever love you so well, or be so entirely devoted to you.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Stripe of straight netting edged with empty loops.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

They know very well that organic changes are never effected without enormous loss and individual deprivation, and they will not move unless they are assured that the value of the object to be gained is commensurate with the extent of the sacrifice.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 431, September 1851 by Various

But now, every word, every look of her who had just left him, came back to memory.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

No eyes were ever like those, I thought, except the eyes of a gipsy.
— from The Motor Maid by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

This venerable structure was crowned by a triangular roof of which no example will, ere long, be seen in Paris.
— from At the Sign of the Cat and Racket by Honoré de Balzac

We put our houses on the tops of hills, and have acres to the right of us, and acres to the left, and acres in front, and acres behind, and you can never visit your neighbors without going miles, and nobody ever walks except little Becky Bannister when she runs away."
— from The Trumpeter Swan by Temple Bailey

I had noted every word, every look, every action, that could lend me a hope; and my memory conjured up, and my judgment canvassed, each little circumstance in its turn.
— from The Rifle Rangers by Mayne Reid

At that time the conviction of man’s natural evolution was even less advanced in Germany than in England, and the work raised a storm of controversy.
— from The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel

At that time the conviction of man's natural evolution was even less advanced in Germany than in England, and the work raised a storm of controversy.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Haeckel