The Member for Arcis.] RESTAUD (Madame Ernest de), born Camille de Grandlieu in 1813, daughter of the Vicomtesse de Grandlieu.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

My only companions had been unamiable children, and ignorant, wrong-headed girls; from whose fatiguing folly, unbroken solitude was often a relief most earnestly desired and dearly prized.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Q. Were there any railroad men engaged during the day Sunday?
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

"Charon, who by now must be quite a rich man, evidently disdains all such petty hidden treasures as these.
— from Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 4 by Madame de Montespan

In 1870 no one had a lighter heritage to bear than French musicians; for the past had been forgotten, and such a thing as real musical education did not exist.
— from Musicians of To-Day by Romain Rolland

I opened the little volume, and ran my eyes down the short pages.
— from The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

"He seems all right," murmured Esther doubtfully.
— from Juggernaut by Alice Campbell

He always expected a rather more elaborate dinner and never failed to go to sleep after luncheon.
— from Enter Bridget by Thomas Cobb

My heart thumped with excitement as, standing in the shadow of some houses at the corner of the street, I hastily opened and folded the sheet and ran my eyes down the long column, freely interspersed with headlines.
— from A Girl Among the Anarchists by Isabel Meredith

At any rate, Mrs. Lambert says beauty and riches are no objection; at any rate, Madam Esmond desired that this family should be hospitably entertained, and it was not her fault that Harry was gone away to Canada.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

Do not, we again repeat most emphatically, do not waste a bone; dissolve all you can get in sulphuric acid and mix with guano—save and make all the manure possible, both by the stable, compost heap and green crops, and then you will have money to buy guano, by which you can save the immense labor of hauling to distant fields, and still have the satisfaction of seeing them as fertile as those highly manured near home.
— from Guano: A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers by Solon Robinson