And then his poor soul crept away and left the body lifeless, though hardly more so than for years before, and Rose a widow, though in truth it was the wedding-night that widowed her.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mary had thought he meant something about Magic.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

On the contrary, we are perpetually told that women are better than men, by those who are totally opposed to treating them as if they were as good; so that the saying has passed into a piece of tiresome cant, intended to put a complimentary face upon an injury, and resembling [Pg 77] those celebrations of royal clemency which, according to Gulliver, the king of Lilliput always prefixed to his most sanguinary decrees.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

All the little things had malignant scarlet fever, and for several days I thought it would please the Almighty to take from me my two girls.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

But if they are not able to fulfil their promises, and, moreover, lack many good things, is not the happiness men seek in them clearly discovered to be a false show?
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Smaller causes than these have made some of the bloodiest wars in history.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

But Mary Trevert had merely shaken her head impatiently, without speaking.
— from The Yellow Streak by Valentine Williams

The adder and the basilisk glided harmless under foot, and rivers stayed their roaring torrent, that the sandal of the holy man should remain unstained by the flood.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

And he knew then that he must speak soon or burst.
— from The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker by Arthur Scott Bailey

Suppose you found that, after all, you were the one love and hope of his life; that all he was doing and thinking was for you; that he was laboring, and toiling, and leaving home, so that he might some day offer you a heart and home, and be your best friend for life?
— from The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe

that primary cause of all the horrible miseries suffered by the Romans ," i. e. the Byzantines.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 by Edward Gibbon

They say they mean no violence towards my son, who cannot live long on account of his irregularities; that he must soon die or lose his sight; and in the latter event he would consent to her becoming Regent.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Complete by Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'