You are more beautiful and nobler and superior to anything that I could ever imagine any woman to be.... Don’t be angry with me: I am not asking anything of you.
— from The Inevitable by Louis Couperus

For some time after this I ceased entirely to see Duc d'Orleans and Madame la Duchesse de Berry.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

I don't know how it is that a feller so thin as Treat is can eat so much."
— from Mr. Stubbs's Brother A Sequel to 'Toby Tyler' by James Otis

The American people could not now be roused sufficiently to avert the impending calamity even by a call that would rift the sky and shake down the stars from heaven!
— from Defenseless America by Hudson Maxim

The report of the captain, second in command of the Fier Roderigue , arrived at the same time, and though it contributed equally to the glory of Beaumarchais, it was very disastrous from the point of view of his coffer.
— from Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 2 by Elizabeth Sarah Kite

For some time after this I ceased entirely to see Duc d’Orleans and Madame la Duchesse de Berry.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de