"Do you really think," he asked, "that God is pleased by your rejecting things that are good enough for the captain and other people on the ship, and that you really serve Him by making yourself so different from anybody else?"
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein
monsieur le chevalier, it seems to me so amusing that your rapier should have been treated like a fowl; it is laughable enough!"
— from The Bath Keepers; Or, Paris in Those Days, v.1 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume VII) by Paul de Kock
And when into the cavern Haidée stepped All timidly, yet rapidly, she saw That like an infant Juan sweetly slept; And then she stopped, and stood as if in awe
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
"My noble cousins and gentlemen," he said in reply, "I confess myself not a little astonished to find that you, who are so strongly attached to your religion, should think me so little attached to mine.
— from One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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