I still remember distinctly some parts of our garden, especially the shady avenue leading from our balcony on the ground floor to the Schafgraben, the pond, the beautiful flower-beds in front of Frau Reichert's stately house, and the field of potatoes where I—the gardener was the huntsman—saw my first partridge shot.
— from The Story of My Life — Volume 01 by Georg Ebers

Stella was recalled from this world, where she had known much triumph and more suffering; and where she had exercised many virtues, which elsewhere, though not here, may perhaps be accepted as some palliation of one great error.
— from Coningsby; Or, The New Generation by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

And that blessed assurance of the constant, sustaining presence of our God, each one of his children may take to him or herself."
— from Elsie's Vacation and After Events by Martha Finley

Arnold's movement led even to a revolution in Rome; but after he had ruled there for ten years, overbearing two successive popes, one of greater energy, Adrian IV, excommunicated the city, so expelling Arnold.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

It was a clever move of Abdullahi; the public reading of the letter blasted all hopes on the part of the discontented Soudanese of any assistance from Slatin in crumbling to dust the kingdom of the Khaleefa, and put an end to all hopes on the part of the former Muslimanieh captives of release, for the small proportion of old Government employés who had, up to then, firmly believed that Slatin was acting, as they express it, “politeeka” in all his dealings, now joined the ranks of those who believed differently.
— from A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years Captivity at Omdurman by Charles Neufeld