If she has recently eaten emu or yam, she will not doubt that an emu or yam has been born in her and is developing.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

If she has really evolved enough to wish to impose her opinions and individuality upon her household or the community, she will have realised that the welfare of the home for which she is responsible, and the community to which she belongs, are, or ought to be, of far more consequence to her than her own personal emotions.
— from Three Things by Elinor Glyn

She has really extraordinary eyes, to begin with, those long fruity Eastern eyes, you know, that can look so far to the right and left through their eyelashes.
— from The Diva's Ruby by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Allowing a liberal margin of $2,500,000 for this reduction and for other causes, it may be safely asserted that the sum of $61,000,000, or, at the most, $62,000,000, is amply sufficient to administer the Government and to pay the interest on the public debt, unless contingent events should hereafter render extraordinary expenditures necessary.
— from State of the Union Addresses by James Buchanan

While business required the daily attendance of Sir W. Jones in Calcutta, his usual residence was on the banks of the Ganges, at the distance of five miles from the court; to this spot he returned every evening after sunset, and in the morning rose so early as to reach his apartments in town by walking, at the first appearance of the dawn.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 5 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

“Well,” said Hervey, ready, even eager to adapt himself to Tom’s mood, “all I’ve got to do is to track an animal for a half a mile or so——” “A quarter of a mile,” Tom said.
— from Tom Slade on Mystery Trail by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

"Ah!" said he, raising expressive eyebrows.
— from Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple

SEE Haugan, Randolph E., ed.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1968 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Everywhere, even where moral influences are neglected, means are provided for the preparation of boys for their career in life; yet, notwithstanding the multitudinous volumes of philanthropy expended upon "woman's sphere," "her rights," etc., etc., we have scarcely heard of a single well-directed effort, beyond the chances of the domestic circle, to educate young women in the supreme, the inexpressibly momentous knowledge of the vocation that must surely be the lot of nearly every one of them.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

In all probability, she had referred it, as she had referred everything else, to his affair with Amy.
— from The Choir Invisible by James Lane Allen