A little hardship, and a little struggling with the rougher elements of life, will perchance but strengthen and increase his courage, and prepare him for the conflicts and struggles of after years.

She … fell grievously in love there with a married man, who after one summer of parvenu passion dispensed to her in his Camping Ford garçonnière preferred to give her up rather than run the risk of endangering his social situation ….

I was sitting in my room, wallowing in self pity, when my favorite TV program came on.

The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.