Another objection, notwithstanding the great stress often laid on it, seems to me to be altogether beside the real issue.
— from Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton

She was of middle height, fair, with a complexion which even in that indistinct light he could see owed little of its smoothness to nature.
— from The Moving Finger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

It is a heart-rending game, on the whole; but there is such excitement about the life that when one has once taken it up it is seldom indeed that one changes it, though one knows that, sooner or later, one is sure to make a slip and get caught.
— from The Lost Heir by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

He would give to Barnaby the best sort of letters of introduction, so that the correspondents of Mr. Hartright throughout those parts, seeing how that gentleman had adopted our hero's interests as his own, were always at considerable pains to be very polite and obliging in showing every attention to him.
— from Stolen Treasure by Howard Pyle

"A man of your size, or lack of it, save the Convention from a mob of fifty thousand? Nonsense!" "Did you ever hear that little slang phrase so much in vogue in America," queried Napoleon, coldly fixing his eye on Barras—"a phrase
— from Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica by John Kendrick Bangs