Rise early enough to have ample time for arranging everything needful for the day's journey.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

He died 9.31 p.m.; the others—Watts, mother, Christina, and nurse, in room; Caine and Shields in and out; Watts at Gabriel’s right side, partly supporting him.’ That Mr. Watts-Dunton’s influence over Rossetti extended even to his art as a poet is shown by Mr. Benson’s words already quoted.
— from Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic by James Douglas

“Captivated, ravished, enamoured, enraptured, they have loved him.
— from The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg

He had got up from the wrong side of the bed that morning, and was in the mood to regret everything, even that he had been born.
— from Sisters by Ada Cambridge

The latter had characteristics that appealed to other senses than the sense of seeing, and made the act of recognition easy enough to his intimates.
— from A Georgian Pageant by Frank Frankfort Moore

Regretting immensely that Mr. Tuckham had not reached England earlier, that he might have occupied the seat for Bevisham, about to be given to Captain Baskelett, Colonel Halkett set up a contrast of Blackburn Tuckham and Nevil Beauchamp; a singular instance of unfairness, his daughter thought, considering that the distinct contrast presented by the circumstances was that of Mr. Tuckham and Captain Baskelett.
— from Beauchamp's Career — Volume 4 by George Meredith

Fragonard seized the idea readily enough, except that he made the frail girl’s husband swing the beauty for her lover’s eyes, using the incident, as usual, but as the trivial theme for a splendid setting amidst trees, glorying in the painting of the foliage—as you may see, if you step into the Wallace galleries, where is the exquisite thing that brought Fragonard fame—the world-famous “Les hazards heureux de l’Escarpolette.”
— from Fragonard by Haldane MacFall

And then, quite unconscious of the fact that he was contradicting himself, he began to demand of them to show him what real existing elements they had to rely on, saying that as far as he could see society was utterly unsympathetic towards them, and the people were as ignorant as could be.
— from Virgin Soil by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Commodore Perry sailed shortly after him for the head of the lake, and appeared at the commencement of September, for several days successively, off Amherstburg, in defiance of the British squadron, retiring every evening to his anchorage at Put-in-Bay .
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson