Resuming his boisterous manner with the same ease with which he had thrown it off, Quilp was in an instant the same uproarious, reckless little savage he had been a few seconds before.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Note 55 ( return ) [ See the Statuta Urbis Romæ, l. iii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

For their mutual birthdays the pair always contrived some “surprise present” in the shape of a glass receptacle for tooth-powder, or what not; and as they sat together on the sofa he would suddenly, and for some unknown reason, lay aside his pipe, and she her work (if at the moment she happened to be holding it in her hands) and husband and wife would imprint upon one another’s cheeks such a prolonged and languishing kiss that during its continuance you could have smoked a small cigar.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Small tradesmen, who did no business whatever, sometimes unaccountably realised large fortunes, and it was remarkable that nobody in the neighbourhood could endure a lamplighter.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

That life from love’s allegiance flags, When love forgets his majesty In sloth’s unceremonious rags. Let love make home a gracious Court; There let the world’s rude, hasty ways Be fashion’d to a loftier port, And learn to bow and stand at gaze; And let the sweet respective sphere Of personal worship there obtain Circumference for moving clear, None treading on another’s train.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

During this period of activity the enemy committed the serious fault of detaching Longstreet's corps—sending it to aid in the siege of Knoxville in East Tennessee—an error which has no justification whatever, unless it be based on the presumption that it was absolutely necessary that Longstreet should ultimately rejoin Lee's army in Virginia by way of Knoxville and Lynchburg, with a chance of picking up Burnside en route.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete by Philip Henry Sheridan

Spiritual unity runs, like sap, from the common root to every uttermost flower; but at each forking in the growth the branches part company, and what happens in one is no direct concern of the othe
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

369 Lanfranco, Juan T., 70 , 71 , 216 , 369 , 433 ; Mrs. —, 71 , 181 , 508 Lanfranco, Mateo, 70 , 216 Lanfranco, Petra Pilar, 135 Lang, Gustav J., 442 Langenberger, A. and Mrs., 212 Langs, confusion as to, 442 ; Lang, John, No. 1, 274 , 442 ; —, No. 2, 442 , 447 ; —'s Station, 387 , 447 , 496 , 498 Lankershim, Isaac, 381 , 421 , 493 ; — Ranch, 578 Lankershim , J. B., 381 , 584 , 606 ; Mrs. —, 65 ; — Block, 192 Lanterns, candle, camphine, coal oil, 34 Largo, Juan, 169 Larkin, Thomas O., American Consul, 108 La Rue, John, 27 ff., 61 Larrabee, Charles H., 376 , 441 Larronde, Pedro, 311 Lasker, Edward, 539 Lasky, L., 72 Lasso, 243 Latham, Milton S., 109 , 282 , 285 ; Camp —, 299 ; Fort —, 321 Latterday Saints, 345 Laubheim, Samuel, 290 Laughlin, Homer, 201 ; — Building, 201 , 608 , 625 , 638 ; — Annex, 593 Laughlin, Richard, 187 Laundries, first, 78 , 298 , 310 Laura Bevan , wreck of, 66 , 152 Laurel Tract, 442 Laurence, H. F., 385 Lauth, Philip, 230 Laventhal, Elias, 146 , 189 Lawler, Oscar, 624 ; Mrs. —, 624 Lawlor, W. B., 373 , 443 ; — Institute, 373 Lawyers, 45 ff.; —', fees, 47 ; —' Block, 596 Lazard, Abe, 72 Lazard, E. M., 72 Lazard Frères, 439 , 522 , 540 Lazard, Max, 89 Lazard, Solomon, 65 , 71 , 89 , 120 , 123 , 133 , 163 , 224 , 287 , 290 , 347 , 365 , 366 , 383 , 449 , 489 , 503 , 504 , 508 , 618 , 637 ; Mrs. —, 224 , 253 , 347 , 508 , 637 ; — & Co., 132 , 171 , 229 , 355 , 362 , 400 , 452 ; — & Kremer, 71 , 189 ; — & Wolfskill, 72 Lazarowich, Joe, 550 Lazarus, P., 230 , 365 ; Mrs. —, 365 ; — Stationery Co., 365 Lea, Homer, 644 Lead mines, 385 , 388 Lechler, George and Mrs., 235 669 Leck, Henry v. d. and Mrs., 64 Leck, Lorenzo, 64 , 78 , 259 , 304 , 409 ; Mrs. —, 304 , 317 ; —'s Hall, 314 Lecouvreur, Frank, 149 , 152 , 230 , 319 , 344 , 403 , 411 ; Mrs. —, 411 Lectures, public, 190 , 623 Ledger, reflections caused by an old, 219 Ledyard, Captain, 338 Lee, Bradner W., 475 , 516 , 517 Lee, Bradner W., Jr. , xvi Lee, Charles, 453 Lee, John D., 217 Lee, John P., 325 Lee, Robert Edward, 328 , 353 Leech, William P., 627 Leeds, England, 276 Leggings, leather, 159 Legislature appealed to, 207 Lehman, Andrew, 86 Lehman, George, 192 , 193 , 272 , 273 , 417 , 463 , 522 ff. Leiter, Levi Z., 602 Leiter, Mary Victoria, 602 Lelande, H. J. , xvi Lelong, Joseph, 77 Lemberg, Fred, 351 Lemons, and lemon-culture, 211 , 212 , 412 Lemon, Frank, 476 Lemon, William, 476 Le Mésnager, George, 541 Le Moyne, Francis Julius, 567 Leon, Ralph, 481 Leonis, Miguel, 310 Le Sage, Gideon, 470 Lessen, 3 Letter boxes, 94 , 410 Letter, Jacob, 72 Letts, Arthur, 613 Levering, Noah, 540 Levy, E. J., 601 Levy, Isaac , xvi Levy, Michael, 372 ; — & Co., 372 ; — Coblentz, 372 Lewin, Louis and Mrs. 365 ; — Co., Louis, 365 Lewis, David, 91 ; and Mrs., 93 Lewis, John A., 93 ; —, McElroy & Rand, 93 Lewis Perry , 237 , 276 , 290 Lewis, S. B., 589 , 607 Lewis, Thomas A., 589 Libby Prison, 295 Libraries, loan, 428 Library Association, Los Angeles, 443 Library, Los Angeles, 257 , 443 , 513 , 542 , 593 , 638 ; —, first, 256 ; transferred to the City, 513 Lichtenberger, H., 607 Lichtenberger, Louis, 153 , 154 , 428 Lick, James, 71 , 216 , 568 Liebre, Rancho de la, 195 Lied von der Glocke, das , 119 Life insurance, 319 Life and Sport in the Open , 558 Lighthouses, first here, 473 ; —, at Catalina, 319 Lighting of streets and buildings, 34 , 349 , 408 , 410 Lightner, Isaac, 344 Lily Langtry Tract, 575 Lincoln, Abraham, 142 , 236 , 238 , 249 , 264 , 289 , 297 , 307 , 315 , 330 , 334 , 337 , 338 , 339 , 399 , 595 ; vote in Los Angeles, 282 Lindley, Albert, 473 Lindley, Henry, 473 Lindley, Ida B., 473 Lindley, Milton, 473 Lindley Walter, 322 , 473 , 589 , 641 Lindskow, 404 Lindville, 405 Lips, Charles C., 356 , 409 , 449 , 539 Lips, Walter, 356 ; —, Craigue & Co., 356 Lissner, Meyer, 639 Little, W. H., 206 , 207 Littlefield, J. C., 444 Little Lake, 387 Liverpool, England, 8 , 9 , 10 , 381 , 447 , 493 Livery stables, 377 , 383 , 389 , 429 Livingstone, David, 211 Llewellyn, David, 559 Llewellyn, Llewellyn J., 559 ; — Iron Works, 559 Llewellyn, Reese, 559 Llewellyn, William, 559 Lloyd, Reuben, 474 Locomotives (see under Railroads ) Lock-boxes, postal, 372 Locust trees, black, 162 , 539 Loeb, Edwin J. , xv ., 355 Loeb, Joseph P. , xv ., 355 , 637 Loeb, Leon, 355 , 383 , 540 , 606 ; Mrs. —, 355 , 636 Loebau, 1 , 5 , 7 , 12 , 360 , 361 , 564 , 621 Loew, Jacob, 87 , 367 , 425 ; Mrs. —, 367 Loewenstein, Emanuel, 75 Loewenstein, Hilliard, 75 , 233 ; Mrs. —, 75 Loewenthal, Max, 75 Logan, honey dealer, 127 Lomas de Santiago rancho , 170 London, 360 , 407 London & San Francisco Bank, 412 Lone Pine, 375 Long Beach, 166 , 167 , 374 , 519 , 580 , 601 , 620 ; — disaster, 647 Longevity, 493 , 528 , 649 Longfellow, Henry W., 624 Lopez, bandit, 209 Lord, Isaac W., 377 , 449 , 489 , 505 , 563 , 576 Lordsburg, 576 , 578 Loricke, E. M., 462 Loring, Frederick, 430 , 431 Los Angeles, 6 , xv ., 22 ff., 36 , 52 , 205 , 231 , 240 , 258 , 313 , 338 , 348 , 349 , 365 , 379 , 388 , 400 , 402 , 417 , 440 ff., 445 , 504 , 510 , 528 , 539 , 541 , 557 , 598 , 614 , 618 , 626 , 640 , 642 , 643 ; extension of hospitality, 398 , 639 Los Angeles advertised at the Centennial, 483 , 498 Los Angeles and consolidation with harbor towns, 638 Los Angeles and Environs , 620 Los Angeles and the Civil War, 294 , 299 ff., 305 , 308 , 311 , 316 , 318 , 321 , 323 , 326 , 328 , 330 , 333 , 334 , 337 ff., 350 , 353 , 371 Los Angeles and the Southern Pacific Railroad problem, 440 ff., 489 , 502 ff Los Angeles as market for the interior, 385 ; as market for whalers, 308 Los Angeles charity, criticism of, 431 Los Angeles Coffee Saloon, 279 Los Angeles College, 566 Los Angeles College Clinical Association, 367 Los Angeles County, 25 , 35 , 92 , 188 , 426 ; organization of, 35 ; ownership of, 166 ; proposed divisions of, 406 , 593 ; reward unpaid, 425 Los Angeles County, An Historical Sketch of , 365 , 501 Los Angeles County, History of , (Guinn) 620 Los Angeles County Bank, 466 Los Angeles County Homeopathic Medical Society, 548 Los Angeles County Railroad, 592 Los Angeles Court House, adobe, 40 , 256 ; Temple —, 67 , 294 , 339 , 441 , 449 ; present —, 301 , 452 Los Angeles Crematory Society, 567 Los Angeles, early views of, 364 Los Angeles Furniture Co., 378 Los Angeles Gas Co., 489 Los Angeles Guards, 499 Los Angeles Harbor, 545 , 637 , 642 ; — Board, 642 ; 670 — dredging, 426 ; proposed harbors, 581 . (See Harbor Contest .)
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark

he asked her; and suddenly, for some unknown reason, laughed.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Pg 82] "I am sure that he had not the slightest idea of doing anything so unselfish," returned Lady Dinsmore, composedly.
— from The Secret House by Edgar Wallace