There was nothing more astonishing or charming than to see in the evening, in one of the most simple little drawing-rooms, antiquely furnished with tables, cushions of old velvet and screens of the eighteenth century, this woman, her spine injured, reclining in her invalid's chair, languid, but without affectation.
— from Women in the Life of Balzac by Juanita Helm Floyd

The abbey of Fonfroide, after seven hundred years’ existence, was closed in 1790, but, more fortunate than La Grasse, it is now inhabited by Bernardins, who seem to have 1373.png inherited the virtues and spirit of the early Cistercians.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

"But nobody has voiced any suspicion of the Everett crowd——" "You don't have to voice it, for me to know what you have in your mind——" "And that Kate Holland is a terrible woman——" began Julie.
— from In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells