Fortunately, as I much wished to retire early, Lady Louisa makes a point of being the first who quit the rooms, and therefore we got home in very tolerable time.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

If any pious reader of such details—which might he multiplied a thousand-fold—still believes that religious emotion (like love!) is the same everywhere, let him compare his own devoted feelings during worship in a Christian church with the emotions which must sway those who participate in a religious ceremony like that described in the following passage taken from Rowney's Wild Tribes of India (105).
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

It was to prepare him for this trip that I met him three nights in the week at his office (he was bookkeeper in a cutlery firm) and there rehearsed East Lynne , Leah the Forsaken , and The Lady of Lyons .
— from A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

Pretty bungalows stand beyond the interlacing avenues of dusky trees, and a framework toy of a church in the green [245] outskirts, contains numerous brass tablets recording English lives laid down in this weary land.
— from Through the Malay Archipelago by Emily Richings

The relief expedition looked like a success.
— from The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris

She looks like a second-rate actress, when she is, in fact, a most thoroughly respectable, estimable, lovable little girl, and on the way, as we poor fellows fondly hope, to bless some one of us with her tenderness and care in some nice home in the future.
— from Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Questi onde a me ritorna il tuo riguardo, e` 'l lume d'uno spirto che 'n pensieri gravi a morir li parve venir tardo: essa e` la luce etterna di Sigieri, che, leggendo nel Vico de li Strami, silogizzo` invidiosi veri>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri