But where, in those scant days we task'd ourselves,— As we were wont in that anterior time,— To forelive future being to excess, To scale youth's daring, sublimated heights, […]

In the case of martyrs their death does not diminish the Church but enlarges it, because their blood "engendereth new supply and it increaseth the more when the disincrease thereof is violently procured.

A white velvet cheongsam! Except for people in movies, I've never seen anyone look as good in a cheongsam as she does.

We thought Jim would be late for the wedding, but then we saw him roll up in front of the church in his Mercedes.