The Cornice in vettura was delightful; Sorrento in winter offered hills to climb and grottoes to explore, and Naples near by to visit; Rome at Easter was an experience necessary for the education of every properly trained private secretary; the journey north by vettura through Perugia and Sienna was a dream; the Splügen Pass, if not equal to the Stelvio, was worth seeing; Paris had always something to show.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

"Yes, mamma," said Pauline, "I never expected to create such a sensation as I did soon after you left.
— from Cora and The Doctor; or, Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie

No one shall prevent it, not even the Lieutenant of God on earth."
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Merely acquiring information or knowledge of the selling process is not enough to assure your success in life.
— from Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins

'You shall chain me to that fellow in the bow of the boat,' said he, 'for I have my doubts that this same punishment is not equal to what our own sailors perform every day, as a mere duty.'
— from Confessions Of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

Dignified, draped, and concealed by that overshadowing title the informing and master spirit performed its never ending task.
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15) by John Lothrop Motley

You ought to make Hensel tell you of these splendid fêtes , which in pomp, brilliancy, and animation, surpass all the imagination can conceive, for my sober pen is not equal to the task.
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy