“Ah, monsieur ,” said the elder sister, smiling and getting up, “good as she is, she’s made for the world.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time ­ I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon!
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Looking down to the earth, she saw a goddess who had arisen long before the dawn and was hurrying up and down the earth, wringing her hands and with tears in her eyes.
— from Wonder Stories: The Best Myths for Boys and Girls by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

I think my steward or housekeeper might content him;' interviews with Curran, Lord Norbury, O'Connell; two visits to Abbotsford, introducing anecdotes and characteristic traits of Scott; a visit to the Ettrick Shepherd; sketches, anecdotes, gossip concerning dozens of notables in literature and art; letters and journals from Rome and Naples, with anecdotes of Gibson, whose friendship he secured, and who modelled his bust; correspondence in leisurely age with his friend Davison concerning art and artists, with the various methods and merits of the latter, make up two volumes of the most interesting ana , which few will be able to throw aside until they are finished.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various

Alas I have not yet prepar’d my Heart To entertain so strange a Guest.
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Aphra Behn

Tennyson, Locksley Hall: “ I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon at Ajalon. ”
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

Oh, let us hope that time may bring To earth some sweet and gentle spring, When human hearts shall thaw, and when The ice shall melt away from men; And where the hearts now frozen stand, Love then shall blossom o'er all the land!
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

I turned from the eastern distance on the bluff, on one of the last days, and looked at the vined study and the big stone house, the elms so strong and green about it.
— from The Hive by Will Levington Comfort

Was there ever so saucy a girl?
— from The Chaplain of the Fleet by James Rice