He decided, instead, that Dorothy Powys’s kiss had been the symbol of a great and noble passion, fated, in the melancholy manner of nearly every legendary lore, p. 371 to frustration.
— from The Young Physician by Francis Brett Young

A few weeks later, at the beginning of November, Edred left London for a tour in the west, and quitted his nephews with more than his usual affection, although his goodbye to Elfric was more constrained, for the good old king, not knowing the whole truth, was beginning to fear that Elfric was a dangerous companion.
— from Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune A Tale of the Days of Saint Dunstan by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE OXFORD NEW EDITION LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
— from Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang

Menken, p. 119: ‘Solus autem nostrorum temporum aut certe cum paucis animadvertit elocutionem emendatam et latinam esse fundamentum oratoris; ad eamque obtinendam necesse esse latinam linguam expurgare quam inquinarunt nonnulli exquisitarum literarum omnino rudes et nullius judicii homines, qui partim a circumpadanis municipiis, partim ex transalpinis provinciis, in hanc urbem confluxerunt.
— from The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

And Bess added: "Does it seem possible that this shabby old neighborhood ever looked like that delightful country-place!"
— from The Sapphire Signet by Augusta Huiell Seaman

English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century ENGLISH SEAMEN IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY LECTURES DELIVERED AT OXFORD EASTER TERMS 1893-4 BY JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE LATE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD New Edition LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1896 [ All rights reserved ] Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, London & Bungay.
— from English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by James Anthony Froude

I believe in the momentous value, hereafter inviolable, of those few truly fraternal men in all the countries of the world, who, in the oscillation of national egoisms let loose, stand up and stand out, steadfast as the glorious statues of Right and Duty.
— from Light by Henri Barbusse

: it may be a man may purchase them for little or nothing—— Enter Lionel , like a scholar, with two books.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13 by Robert Dodsley

Such a church will conduce to the intelligence of its members, and may be rather more, though probably less, useful than the old New England Lyceum lecture system.
— from The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John M. (John Mason) Tyler