You have more friends in the Northern and Atlantic regions than you suppose, and they are deeply interested in the development of the great Southwestern interior, and in what your festival would arouse to public attention.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

If you are inclined to worry during the night, to keep your mental faculties on the strain, taut, it will be a good plan for you to have a bow in your bedroom and unstring it every night as a reminder that you should also unstring your mind so that it will not lose its springing power.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

At two o’clock we will come again, and report to you anything which may have happened in the interval.”
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

He had a great relish for feminine beauty; he was addicted to observing and analyzing it; and as regards this young lady’s face he made several observations.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

To those who have spent their youth in dissipation such havens say what the ant said to the dragonfly—namely, ‘Go you away, and return to your dancing.’
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

“Not at all,” replied the young man; but his voice was dead and cold.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

"Here is the Maypole, and here the pump—nothing is altered; nothing but the people, at any rate; ten years make a change in people; some of these I seem to know, but none know me.”
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Such works are held as antiquate and mossy; And as regards the younger folk, indeed, They never yet have been so pert and saucy.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" "He will die as Bar Comas, your jeddak, sees fit, if at all," replied the young ruler, with emphasis and dignity.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

In an adjoining room three young people had been sitting for the last half-hour or more, very quiet and still, yet full of an eager expectancy that made the waiting time seem very long and tedious.
— from Signing the Contract, and What It Cost by Martha Finley

“Beg pardon, sir; Dick Smithson made me swear as I’d keep my mouth shut about him, and I give him my word; and, all respeck to you, sir, I’m going to keep it; but I can’t contradict what you said, sir, all the same.”
— from The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne by George Manville Fenn

As above remarked, the young wild-cats are quite the most ferocious and utterly untameable beasts of which we have had any experience; the mixture of fear and fury they exhibit in captivity is indescribable, even when only a few weeks old.
— from Wild Spain (España agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Abel Chapman

Yellow stain, it should be said, was freely used in connection with all this white; and its invariable association therewith is one of the marked characteristics of Later Gothic glass; but as a rule the yellow was not only delicate in tint but delicately introduced, so that it did not much disturb the effect of white.
— from Windows: A Book About Stained & Painted Glass by Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman) Day

This is not only a convenience to you and a relief to your wife and family, who will thus be spared your excursions to unavailable and unsatisfactory fires, and your somewhat irritated return,—it will be a great relief to the Fire Department.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

At any rate, the young squire's presentation of himself at the Wings', on the afternoon of the day he got back from New York, was by appointment strictly.
— from Angela's Business by Henry Sydnor Harrison

It would make you stare to read their answers; and read them you should, only that I burnt them as fast as they arrived.
— from The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Remember at any rate, that you’re my dark horse, Rutter.
— from Fathers of Men by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

But I gather from E. B. C. that he was not struck with what I doubted: and I am very glad, at any rate, that you are very well pleased, both of you.
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2 by Edward FitzGerald

You will find the same in me perhaps, or, at any rate, think you do, although I try to exclude it, having to deal with Englishmen, who make nothing of all the great deeds they have done until you begin to agree with them.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore