The ingenuous arts had softened his manners; the parliamentary eloquences supplied him with a succedaneum for government, the popular literatures with the finer sensibilities of the heart: surely on this wind ward side of things the British reader was not ill off?—Unhappy British reader!
— from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle

"Too like a pinafore, eh?" said he, with a sly laugh.
— from A Flat Iron for a Farthing; or, Some Passages in the Life of an only Son by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

When he had disappeared, Marguerite remained in a trance which separated her from earth; she was no longer in the parlor; she lost consciousness of physical existence; she had wings, and soared amid the immensities of the moral world, where Thought contracts the limits both of Time and Space, where a divine hand lifts the veil of the Future.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac