Surely the leagues of bright green lawns are swept and brushed and watered every day and their grasses trimmed by the barber.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

He was a public-spirited man, whose heart and pocket were open to people in real trouble, but for prayers he had never been asked before, and, was entirely destitute of them.
— from Romance of California Life Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and Humorous by John Habberton

Egg, Augustus, 110 . Ellis and Blackmore, attorneys who employed Dickens, 41 , 43 .
— from The Dickens Country by Frederic George Kitton

And we call absolute analogically any being also whose existence does not depend on any created being, although it depends on the creative and conservative action of God; and in this sense every created substance is absolute.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

We want it as badly as we ever did.
— from Imperfectly Proper by Peter Donovan

The public is much indebted to a gentleman named Lowe , who lives at Bermondsey, and writes every day to the Times , to inform the world which way the wind blew on the preceding day, how much rain fell late in the evening, what amount of cloud was floating about at a particular hour of the day, and other equally interesting particulars.
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

There were many types, indeed, scarcely two being alike; but all were equally disagreeable in appearance.
— from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum