She pouted in right earnest and it was infinitely becoming to her.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

They will find to their cost that the figures of statistics have little mercy for the figures of speech, which are so powerful in raising enthusiasm and so helpless in raising money.
— from The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by James Russell Lowell

Such property is real estate and, as such, it may be bought and sold or otherwise transferred exactly the same as farms or city lots.
— from The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines by Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph) Hoskin

It has its fixed laws, its set phrases, its regular epithets and terms of expression, and though there is, as in all high literary form, an endless diversity of interest and style, yet there are also bounds which are never over-stepped, confining the Saga as closely as the employment and restrictions of verse could do.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

I walked in solitary places, I returned early, and always ordered my concierge to say that I was not at home.
— from Le Cocu (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVIII) by Paul de Kock

There were stores of arms, means of communication, warriors, and even a powerful leader, who, through his strange position, infused religious enthusiasm and warlike courage.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz