I believe the steamer would go over Champion Rock all right; but her captain is shy, and I don't think he will come any nearer than he is now."
— from All Adrift; Or, The Goldwing Club by Oliver Optic

Popular historians have written to their readers; each with different views, but all alike form the open documents of history; like feed advocates, they declaim, or like special pleaders, they keep only on one side of their case: they are seldom zealous to push on their cross-examination; for they come to gain their cause, and not to hazard it!
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

Mr. W. J. McGee, treating of "Earth the Home of Man," says (502. 28):— "In like manner, mankind, offspring of Mother Earth, cradled and nursed through helpless infancy by things earthly, has been brought well towards maturity; and, like the individual man, he is repaying the debt unconsciously assumed at the birth of his kind, by transforming the face of nature, by making all things better than they were before, by aiding the good and destroying the bad among animals and plants, and by protecting the aging earth from the ravages of time and failing strength, even as the child protects his fleshly mother.
— from The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

“Mr. Farnum,” he added, 13 “has stated casually around Nome that he is taking a party of hunters up the MacKenzie.
— from The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition by Gerald Breckenridge

Indeed, it is the versatility of the man that is his charm, and now that he is turning more and more from the material to the spiritual it is impossible to say how high a level he may attain.
— from The Wanderings of a Spiritualist by Arthur Conan Doyle

It seems to us to be peopled only with objects—planets, suns, stars, nebulæ, atoms, imponderous fluids—which move, unite and separate, repel and attract one another, which shrink and expand, are for ever shifting and never arrive, which measure space in that which has no confines and number the hours in that which has no term.
— from Our Eternity by Maurice Maeterlinck

[251] Chaucer appears not to have inflected this word in the second person: "Also ryght as thou were ensample of moche folde errour, righte so thou must be ensample of manifold correction.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

"Stop!" "And tell Maggie," pursued Travis, "to fricassee her chicken, and not to have it too well done—" "Sto-o-op!"
— from Blix by Frank Norris