It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.