Their support was not needed, therefore they were not courted. - Anthony Trollope

"I can never bring myself to believe it, John," said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney, of Silverbridge.

As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, — in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?