In the earlier days men bent on sport, on prospecting or on adventure, pure and simple, climbed light-heartedly down the steep mountain stairs at all times and seasons little reckoning that it would have saved them much needless misery if they had, instead, leaped headlong from the towering cliffs.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
She had been married at nineteen-she was now twenty-six: in those seven years of suffering there had been ample time to obliterate all traces of the frivolous, worldly girl whom Bonstetten had seen light-heartedly laughing at her old husband's jokes; there had been plenty of time to produce in this excessively intellectual nature that vague dissatisfaction, that desire for the ideal, which is the price too often paid for the consolation of mere abstract and literary interests.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
Sue lied bravely, convincingly, whole-heartedly.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson