Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.

The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.

I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids.

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.