For seven years, didn’t I study every look and motion, and only live and breathe to please him?
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"That she's even lovelier and more attractive than Mrs. Spencer."
— from The Cab of the Sleeping Horse by John Reed Scott

She loved Sandeau as much as she ever loved any man; and yet she left him with a sense that she had never become wholly his.
— from Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete by Lyndon Orr

This appeared in his Observationes diametrorum solis et lunae apparentium, meridianarumque aliquot altitudinum cum tabula declinationum solis ....
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

It sounded exactly like a miniature aeroplane approaching at phenomenal speed.
— from Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

If he could drive a profitable trade, it mattered little how he did it; and if somebody else lost as much as he gained by the bargain, that was not his business; every one must look out for himself.
— from Oscar The Boy Who Had His Own Way by Walter Aimwell

28 Front and Back Elevations of Cottage designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Mr. Alban Scott.
— from Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay: A Renaissance (2nd edition) by Clough Williams-Ellis

"No comprehende," she ejaculated, looking at me as if I had lost my senses.
— from Six Months in Mexico by Nellie Bly