But as she reflected in her own justification, one had to have something to eat, let lovers say what they would.
— from The Ordeal of Elizabeth by Anonymous

But it has always been true of the English and American law, at least since that early labor legislation sketched above in chapter 4 which came to a final end at least as early as Elizabeth, that no man could be compelled to work—except, of course, by way of punishment for crime—and more than that, he could not even be compelled to work or carry out a specific contract of labor to which he had bound himself by all possible formality.
— from Popular Law-making A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute by Frederic Jesup Stimson

While Love shall thus entombed lie, Love shall live, although he die!
— from The Flower of the Mind by Alice Meynell

He gave his own testimony to the previous marriage of Bridget, and pointed out the means of obtaining more, so that, ere long, Lord Scatterbrain was a “free man.”
— from Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life by Samuel Lover

He saw the eyes, large, limpid, soft, and black as a deer's; the pearls in the dark hair, and the pearls in the pink mouth; the lips curling to a kiss, a flower-kiss; and a fragrance seemed to float to his senses, sweet, strange, soporific,—a perfume of youth, an odor of woman.
— from Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn