The prosperity of no empire, nor the grandeur of no king, can so agreeably affect in the reading, as the ruin of the state of Macedon, and the distress of its unhappy prince.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

We want to know his secret; but he must never know our interest in it and you are to be as silent in this matter as if possessed of neither ear nor tongue.
— from The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green

No social truth is more in need of exposition and illustration than this one; and, above all, the people of New England need to know it, and, better, they need to believe it.
— from The Chimney-Corner by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The prosperity of no empire, nor the grandeur of no king, can so agreeably affect, etc. —Burke.
— from An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell

No neglected farms, no rough patches of naked earth, no tumble-down fences, no unsightly railroad excavations nor bare embankments, no swamps filled with fallen timber, no hideous bill-boards, none of the hundreds of unsightly objects which mar the scenery of so many country drives.
— from The Country of Sir Walter Scott by Charles S. (Charles Sumner) Olcott

With every minute that passed thus gaily in Tom's companionship, the certainty grew on me that in the nursery I had been the prey of nervous exhaustion, not the helpless protagonist of a startling psychic drama.
— from Perkins, the Fakeer: A Travesty on Reincarnation His wonderful workings in the cases of "When Reginald was Caroline", "How Chopin came to Remsen", and "Clarissa's troublesome baby" by Edward S. (Edward Sims) Van Zile