Addison replied in the Old Whig , and this, which occurred within a year of the close of Addison's life, was the main subject of political difference between them.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

There was one where a young lady was at a window looking up at the moon, and tears running down her cheeks; and she had an open letter in one hand with black sealing wax showing on one edge of it, and she was mashing a locket with a chain to it against her mouth, and underneath the picture it said “And
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

If your husband talks with other women and yet gives you no cause to doubt him you have the best possible proof that you are more attractive to him than any one else.
— from My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 2, October 6, 1900 Marion Marlowe's Courage; or, A Brave Girl's Struggle for Life and Honor by Lurana Sheldon

A line to say when and where to meet you is all we want, and you will find the warmest of welcomes awaiting you, and your own favorite room in the turret.
— from The Professional Aunt by Mary C. E. Wemyss

It is curious how a certain strain or vein of temperament, like that just mentioned, will run through a nation's whole life, and colour its actions in all departments, recognized and commented on by the whole outside world, and yet remain unobserved by the nation itself.
— from The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife by Edward Carpenter

At the touch of that shadow,—as if it had been solid and released an oiled spring within his mechanism,—he dived back into his hole; and the swooping marsh-hawk, after a savage but futile clutch at the vanishing tip of his tail, wheeled off with a yelp of disappointment.
— from Some Animal Stories by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

And there were others who answered— "Yes, the same Ishmael Ameer that married the Coptic woman who lies buried on the edge of the desert."
— from The White Prophet, Volume 1 (of 2) by Caine, Hall, Sir

How could they treat with one who as yet had no real existence?
— from La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet

There was one where a young lady was at a window looking up at the moon, and tears running down her cheeks; and she had an open letter in one hand with black sealing-wax showing on one edge of it, and she was mashing a locket with a chain to it against her mouth, and underneath the picture it said "And Art Thou Gone
— from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) by Mark Twain

In a council of war the next day English and Indian, Russian, German, Japanese, Italian, and French, general after general declared for the wisdom of waiting at Yang-Tsun for reinforcements.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter

From them he learned that his sister Noblede, the wife of Morvan, together with other women and young girls who took refuge in the fortified enclosure, had stabbed themselves to death in order to escape being outraged by the Franks and led into slavery.
— from The Carlovingian Coins; Or, The Daughters of Charlemagne A Tale of the Ninth Century by Eugène Sue