So that, your love elsewhere, These songs, or bad or good— How should they ever have been?
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

So that , your love elsewhere , These songs , or bad or good — How should they ever have been ?
— from Hawthorn and Lavender, with Other Verses by William Ernest Henley

When he saw the young lady entering the shop, Cotsdean's spirits rose a little, for a new customer was pleasant, and though he thought he had seen her, he did not know who she was.
— from Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

With quick interest, partly in that it was one of the first cases in which his legal wisdom had been consulted, and partly from the kindly feeling of neighborship, which is so warm in Scotland, the young lawyer embraced the search, and promised to go down instantly to the parish in which the deed was done, or even to engage the assistance of an acute writer, of experience in his craft, if Lewis thought that desirable.
— from Merkland; or, Self Sacrifice by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

In the midst of her yawn her daughter went out of the room, with an impatient gesture, and she suspended the yawn long enough to smile, and then finished it.
— from April Hopes by William Dean Howells