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That is the place to which I shall take, or rather, to which I shall have Blanche taken.
— from The Barber of Paris by Paul de Kock
And in secular architecture we do not study what is adapted to our climate any more than in ecclesiastic architecture we adopt that which is suited to our religion.
— from Backlog Studies by Charles Dudley Warner
I do not believe that this will ever, by itself, cure a true neuralgia of any considerable severity; but I have more than once known its intervention, at a crisis in treatment when it seemed that other remedies might fail, produce a striking change in the progress even of a very bad case.
— from Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis Edmund Anstie
In the crown of the dome-roof is a circular opening surrounded by a balustrade, through which is seen the ornamental roof of the room above.
— from Smeaton and Lighthouses A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel by Anonymous
However, I must trust to your tact, which is superior to ordinary rules.
— from The Women of the French Salons by Amelia Gere Mason
"So I came in—as Mr. Arthur Calthorpe—and the mystery deepened tenfold when I saw this old room all lit up precisely as I had remembered it so many years ago.
— from The Boarded-Up House by Augusta Huiell Seaman
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