At this proposition Lady Elizabeth shook her head vigorously.
— from Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope

"Poor Lady," exclaimed Sir Henry's page, who was in charge of the party.
— from Heiress of Haddon by W. E. (William Elliott) Doubleday

"At all events she took to something pernicious, lost everything she had, and finally sold the precious
— from On the Lightship by Herman Knickerbocker Vielé

She thought of that last and vain caution which she had given him, when with her hardly permitted last embrace she had besought him to take care of himself.
— from The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

Dan stood just outside the kitchen door, not presuming to enter, and when the last song was finished, he had tears in his piggy little eyes; so he fled with the posies, nor tarried to thank her and wish her a pleasant good-night.
— from Kindred of the Dust by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

There have been houses built of which it might be said that every nail driven, every foot of plastering put on, every yard of pipe laid, every shingle hammered, every brick mortared, could tell of falsehood connected therewith.
— from The Abominations of Modern Society by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

Dr. W.O. Henry, in a paper read before the Nebraska State Medical Association in May, 1911, put forward the proposal: "Let each State have one or more competent physicians whose duty it shall be to teach [253] these things to the children in all the public schools of the State from the time they are eight years of age.
— from The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis