The interior gave out no sense of grandeur, repose or devotion.
— from Glories of Spain by Charles W. (Charles William) Wood

She grew quite excited over this project, and was on the point of driving into town to see Anna, when Anna herself in all the ingenious gaiety of new spring finery, drove into the yard.
— from The Fortune of the Landrays by Vaughan Kester

I haven't a [148] doubt but what he's been instructed that an honest man is the noblest work of God, and I've no idea that he's ever understood till now that vice is its own reward, or how immaterial it is whether a thing is gold or not, so long as it really glitters."
— from The Transgression of Andrew Vane: A Novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl

I cannot fill the law-appointments till I go over, nor shall I go over till I cannot help it.
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

He accordingly cautioned the United States "to bear in mind probabilities and possibilities as to the future conduct of Germany, and therefore increase gradually our naval strength."
— from History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico by William Allison Sweeney

Then in silence they walked up to the iron gate of number seventy-four, stood stock-still facing one another.
— from Twos and Threes by G. B. (Gladys Bronwyn) Stern

Dean Williams, who after Bacon's fall had received the Great Seal, opened the session with a request for the immediate grant of new subsidies, which he said would be required even before Christmas.
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke