"Why not? Because to learn a language, my Friedrich, one must have a master, and exercises, and a phrase-book, and progressive reading-lessons with vocabulary; and, in short, one must learn a language in the way everybody else learns it; that is why not, my Friedrich."
— from Melchior's Dream and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

She knew that Mr. Ricaby and Tod were exhausting every legal resource to procure her liberty and that an order for her release was only a question of time.
— from John Marsh's Millions by Arthur Hornblow

“All the money in the world can’t protect you from the troubles which enter every life!”
— from What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

The analysis of food for its elemental molecule values, and for its heat content, is a very difficult thing to do and takes much time; hence to bring a large variety into a diet during a test would entail enormous labour on the laboratory staff.
— from The New Glutton or Epicure by Horace Fletcher

They were evidently escaping, like ourselves, but had been more fortunate than we, for they had packs on their backs.
— from Three Times and Out Told by Private Simmons, Written by Nellie L. McClung by Mervin C. Simmons

Around her neck was that locket with the gold chain which I have so often shown you, on one side of which is the miniature of the young officer in his most Christian Majesty's uniform, and on the other a yellow-faded slip of paper with these words: "Elle est la mienne, quoiqu'elle ne porte pas mou nom."
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Providentially the whole escaped, except Lady Sale, who was slightly wounded in the arm."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various