The empire loudly asserted its motive.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

David d'Angers was one of the noblest creatures that ever lived, and I mean to speak of him at greater length.
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

You can judge how big it was: after I brought it ashore I lay it out on the beach and we measured it, Mr. McAlpin and me, and he'll tell you so too; we laid it out on the beach, that ere liver, and it measured seventeen feet, and then we didn't measure all of it."
— from Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses by Frederic S. (Frederic Swartwout) Cozzens

"It's a damnable conspiracy against one of the most honourable men that ever lived, and I mean to ferret out and expose the authors.
— from The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life by Arthur Hornblow

The Escambia , little as it may have helped, stuck to her work, straining at its cable like a river tug snorting at a liner’s nose.
— from The Boy Aeronauts' Club; or, Flying for Fun by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler

It lives and breathes, the eyes look as if moving, and it is perfectly true that I was riveted to the spot with wonder at the performance of the beyond all famous master.
— from Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Biddulph, Elizabeth Philippa, Baroness

"True, you ask me to explain love and I must tell you that I cannot.
— from The Soul Scar: A Craig Kennedy Scientific Mystery Novel by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

The experience that has been thus gained at Chesterfield at the present juncture must be of value to all towns intending to adopt the electric light, and is my reason for troubling you with this letter, although I believe the time will shortly come when lighting by electricity may be advantageously adopted, both for public and private purposes.
— from The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook by H. Percy (Henry Percy) Boulnois