Californians brook no argument on the subject: for them the Southern Pacific's Coast Daylight was the world's most beautiful streamliner - a band of red, orange, and black drawn by appropriately styled Lima GS 4-8-4's.

Lavinia—shrewd, careless, clever; ready to meet any difficulty, however humiliating, that might occur; utterly without principle; confident in that good fortune, which she scrupled at no means of attaining—was the very type of the real.

, New York, 2001, p.107: I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.

[there is in Jefferson] […] evidence of a mind soured, yet seeking for popularity, and eaten to a honeycomb with ambition […]