"[W]hile I was learning the Latin grammar, I learnt other things besides, of more use than the construction of any lan…"

"They have found gold here, and gold in abundance, and hither have come, by ship and steamship, all the unfortunate of…"

"I see a vision of a nation, the colony of the greatest race on the earth, who began their career with more advantages…"

""I see," began the Major, "the Anglo-Saxon race—" "Don't forget the Irish, Jews, Germans, Chinese, and other barbaria…"

"I kenned yer partner: a good man—a very good man, a man o' ten thousand. He was put down up north. A bad job—a very b…"

"Now that broad cool verandah of Captain Brentwood's, with its deep recesses of shadow, was a place not to be lightly …"

"Oh, but the sabres bit deep that autumn afternoon! There were women in Minsk, in Moglef, in Tohernigof, in Jitenier, …"

"Those whose knowledge of the pastoral regions is drawn from a course of novels of the Geoffrey Hamlyn class, cannot f…"

"I never cared a bit for philology; my chief aim has been throughout to illustrate the social condition of the English…"

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."