The priests and rulers scoffed in like manner, "He saved others, but himself he cannot save."
— from Bible Stories by Anonymous

Having admired our Cavalier-Strasse, I could admire all the more the Boulevards in Paris, and Regent Street in London.
— from My Autobiography: A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

And all the way the whistle-pipe went on playing and reciting, singing its little song.
— from Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome

And with that they fetched me over to Trudgian's office and paid me down on the table; 'for,' says the lawyer, 'we won't put expense on a man so poor as Roger Stephen is like to be, though he have given these fal-lals a useless journey.'
— from Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

The unfortunate effects of this preference, as regards success in landscape-painting, will claim our attention later.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton