Behold an actor’s patronage affords A surer means of rising than a lord’s!
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

"If he saved our men of refined taste and literary eminence—our great historians and poets—the noble aristocracy of our country—our active spirits who go about doing good—persons of artistic and professional skill—the heroes and heroines of valour and adventure—many would be more gratified than surprised: this, they would say, is as it ought to be; due respect is paid to mind, to moral worth, to rank—the dignity of order is preserved.
— from The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Timothy East

4 Owen was an Independent, and, for a divine of that age, a man of remarkably tolerant and liberal views.
— from Locke by Thomas Fowler

He managed, however, to dismount, and rather breathlessly carried the lady to the shade of the trees, where he laid her with her head on a mound of rising turf, and, lifting aside her hair, saw her face for the first time.
— from The Isle of Unrest by Henry Seton Merriman

Above us the gray broken mass of rim towered and loomed, more formidable as we neared it.
— from Tales of lonely trails by Zane Grey

The cotton mills of Roubaix, Tourcoing and Lille were extremely prosperous and important.
— from Lille Before and During the War by Pneu Michelin (Firm)

The longer one lives in Paris, the more one realizes the absolute lack of criteria in judging artistic achievement.
— from Paris Vistas by Helen Davenport Gibbons

All joined in, from the captain to Mark, and in half an hour a cable was run out of one of the hawse-holes, dragged high up the sands, one end taken round a huge mass of rock, tied and lashed, and the other end well stopped in the ship.
— from Mother Carey's Chicken: Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle by George Manville Fenn

"That is a long story, Margaret, or rather there are links in the chain that go back a long way.
— from A Modern Madonna by Caroline Abbot Stanley