“Hurry up, now,” said the other policeman.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The taller priest nodded his bowed head and said: “Ah, yes, these modern infidels appeal to their reason; but who can look at those millions of worlds and not feel that there may well be wonderful universes above us where reason is utterly unreasonable?” “No,” said the other priest; “reason is always reasonable, even in the last limbo, in the lost borderland of things.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The title-page announcement that the work contains “ over forty-six thousand articles (authors)” awakens within us no special throbs of pleasurable anticipation, for we know how dictionaries are made.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

"Hurry up, now," said the other policeman.
— from Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

They speak authoritatively to our common-sense, to our intelligence, to our desire of peace or to our desire of unrest; not seldom to our prejudices, sometimes to our fears, often to our egoism—but always to our credulity.
— from Notes on My Books by Joseph Conrad

But since those days military literature has undergone somewhat of a change, and the communiqués which we devour twice a day, hungry for news, give us no such tales of prowess.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index by Various

But let us not suppose that our perils and difficulties are terminated; on the contrary, without wishing to dishearten you, I feel that they are about to commence.
— from The Settlers in Canada by Frederick Marryat