The poor lunatic, it seems probable, had cherished a delusion that his haughty mistress sat in state, unharmed herself by the pestilential influence which as by enchantment she scattered round about her.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Such Incidents as these make some Ladies wholly absent themselves from the Play-House; and others never miss the first Day of a Play, lest it should prove too luscious to admit their going with any Countenance to it on the second.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But if you were anywhere else, living as good people live, I should perhaps be more than attracted by you, should fall in love with you, should be glad of a look from you, let alone a word; I should hang about your door, should go down on my knees to you, should look upon you as my betrothed and think it an honour to be allowed to.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She welcomed me as a fellow-countryman in a strange land, told me of her struggles, and added that now she had an easy life of it, and associated with the pleasantest ladies in St. Petersburg.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It can be seen on older students any day, even in winter, in the reading-room of the Imperial Public Library in St. Petersburg, on the imperial choir in the Winter Palace as undress uniform for week-day services, and elsewhere.
— from Russian Rambles by Isabel Florence Hapgood

Others are acting similarly, sauntering in pairs, loitering in shady places, or sitting on rustic benches.
— from Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid

We live with the flowers and the grass, Simple, pure and ardent still, Lost in our love, Like single sheaves within the infinite wheat, And proudly let imperial summer pass
— from Afternoon by Emile Verhaeren

You must know that people living in secluded places are mostly superstitious.
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Complete by Gilbert Parker

For the passion of patience, look if Sir Petronel approach.
— from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt

Of course, not one twentieth of the population lives in such places.
— from Peeps At Many Lands: Australia by Frank Fox

Shall power lurk in secret places, instead of radiating from its natural source?
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Leo , the names of 13 Popes: L. I., St. , Pope from 410 to 461; L. II., St. , Pope from 682 to 683; L. III. ,
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall