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— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

These times and places are sufficiently wide apart, yet today I have the strange sense of being thrust back into that Missourian village and of reliving certain stirring days that I lived there so long ago.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

She had indeed been obliged to sacrifice her hopes with regard to the inner life; the social question, on the Continent, bristled with difficulties even more numerous than those she had encountered in England.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

"Pray tell your sister that I long to see her."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

"I don't want you to; I love to see you so young and happy, only you are not the old David, and I've got to get acquainted with the new one."
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Cesario, by the roses of the spring, By maidhood, honour, truth, and every thing, I love thee so that, maugre all thy pride, Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[ 71 ] While there, I learned to speak Japanese, and made a slight study of the Japanese theatre.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

He spends much more of his time in longing to see her, or in rejoicing that he has seen her, than he actually spends in her presence.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thence I loved to stroll to the Holy Gate of the Kremlin.
— from Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John L. Stephens

He merely displays precocity that is likely to sap his very life; he probably supports a family at an age when he needs all of the protection and support that can be given him; and, if he does not meet a premature death, he rarely, very rarely, fulfils anything like the promise of his youth.
— from Curiosities of the American Stage by Laurence Hutton

In a dilemma thus what to do, at last this she said: "Saladyne, ever since I saw thee, I favored thee; I cannot dissemble my desires, because I see thou dost faithfully manifest thy thoughts, and in liking thee I love thee so far as mine honor holds fancy still in suspense; but if I knew thee as virtuous as thy father, or as well qualified as thy brother Rosader, the doubt should be quickly decided: but for this time to give thee an answer, assure thyself this, I will either marry with Saladyne, or still live a virgin."
— from Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Thomas Lodge

"It was particularly by the denial of matter that I lost the superfluous flesh, for since I was too fleshy to be of symmetrical form, it was superfluous and——" "Did you know the denial of matter would have such an effect?" interrupted Kate.
— from The Right Knock A Story by Helen Van-Anderson

Well now, you know, when I apologize to any one, I like to see the apology hit them; I like to see them writhe and quiver under it, and go down before it, and I feel a good deal wickeder after I’ve repented than I did before.
— from Mrs. Farrell by William Dean Howells

The doors are low and even the tower is low; the spire scarcely reaches up over the big maple-trees, as we can see from our windows.
— from What Happened to Inger Johanne, as Told by Herself by Dikken Zwilgmeyer

That was no pleasant information, for Menendez lay between us and the River of May; and the Indians, doubtless those of Outina, at war with the friendly Satouriona, would lose no time in letting the Spaniards know of our whereabouts and condition.
— from In Search of Mademoiselle by George Gibbs

“Within that time I look to see the wheat production of North America not only doubled, but trebled.”
— from The Great Lakes The Vessels That Plough Them: Their Owners, Their Sailors, and Their Cargoes, Together with a Brief History of Our Inland Seas by James Oliver Curwood

Not to talk of the rearing of these people—the trouble and expense of bringing up a healthy man, woman, or child, and, especially, leaving out the irreparable loss to society, in this country, of their affections, hopes, and family ties—all, now, sundered and destroyed—not to talk of the countless living deaths of wholesale emigration from a feeling and warm-hearted mother country—the amount of capital taken by these 3,000 is immense.
— from Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton