She has "a beautiful green delaine and a black braise [barége] which are very becoming."
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The fairies always supplied me with flax for my spinning, and by great diligence I made enough cord for a ladder that would reach to the foot of the tower; but, alas!
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

"Together, ma'am," and Ben gulped down half of his new mug at one gulp.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

As whan cause is, and som swich fantasye With pietee so wel repressed is, That it unnethe dooth or seyth amis, But goodly drinketh up al his distresse; 1035
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Ang banggà gilútù dáan sa mga maghuhúkum, The judges prejudged the contest.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Oh! With what a burning gush did hope revisit my heart!
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

On his return he finds it necessary to write his future wife and to her father—and to pen a legible letter to the latter gives him far more trouble than winning a battle against the Austrians, if not assisted by General Danube.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

“See, there’s a boy getting down off the wall, at that far corner.
— from Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (Illustrated) by Lewis Carroll

Cromwell was mad and a quack; Anselm, Becket, Goethe, ditto ditto .
— from Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle

At one moment, it is true, Dario in a joking way had caught hold of her hands and pressed them; but while he began to laugh rather nervously, with a brighter gleam darting from his eyes, she on her side, all composure, slowly freed her hands, as though theirs was but
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

Is it now in order for our American Bolshevists, Gene Debs, Morris Hillquit ( alias Hilkovitz) and Vic Berger, solemnly to inform us that Russian Bolshevism never was Socialism, nor anything like it, but only a base counterfeit?
— from The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto

Once they found fresh excrements after Rauten, and Bjönn grew doubly eager after smelling them.
— from The Trail of the Elk by Mikkjel Fønhus

There are side-shows in which are exhibited fat women, headless men, and bodiless girls, distorted thus by mirrors, the deception of which even we children saw through plainly.
— from Brittany by Dorothy Menpes

[Pg 11] ASSOCIATING WITH THE STOCK AND BOND GRAFTERS Disguised as an Englishman who has money and is looking for a good investment, Mr. Wooldridge is easily mistaken for a "sucker.
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge