I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

We are apt to think that European influence in China is quite a thing of yesterday, that Baron von Kettler was the first man of note who perished in the inevitable conflict, and yet, when I looked at the eastern wall of the city, I was reminded, with a start, that European influence dates long before 031 the Boxer time, long before the days of the Honourable East India Company, and many must have been the martyrs.
— from A Woman In China by Mary Gaunt

Let them enlighten those that dwell in the bonds of night on their own borders; then shall their efforts in distant lands be blest.
— from Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha Griffith Browne

After a good deal of skirmishing, he elicited all from the old coachman, who, however, said, though English, if Dr. L—— was a Roman Catholic, he might induce his son to trust him, as he believed that the little bottles he showed him really contained des remèdes .
— from Old Memories: Amusing and Historical by MacPherson, Daniel, Mrs.

This company, which devoted hours to the new French diversion of the parfilage, and spent the evenings in drinking lemonade and playing basset for small stakes, found its chief topic of conversation in the only two subjects safely discussed in Turin at that day—the doings of the aristocracy and of the clergy.
— from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton