When I contrast their genuine kindness and humanity with the haughty, arrogant airs assumed by some ladies of a higher standing in society from England who sojourned in their house at the same time with ourselves—when I remember their insolent way of giving their orders to Mrs. S——, and their still more wounding condescension—I confess I cannot but feel ashamed of my countrywomen.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

A bird sang loudly on a branch above; it seemed miles away, across an empty world....
— from The Garden of Survival by Algernon Blackwood

acquired by skinning , looking on, and ponies.
— from A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

And when in the choir he not only looked like an angel but sang like one, as his voice was remarkably beautiful.
— from The Red Bicycle by Fergus Hume

Though these facts are well known, Punch , the pet organ of the British middle-class, was not ashamed a little while ago to make a mock of some suggested reform, by publishing a picture of a British convict, with the villainous face of a Bill Sykes, lying on a sofa in his cell smoking a cigar with champagne at hand.
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 by Frank Harris

I was just childish and weak enough from my illness to be a trifle chagrined at being so left out, and I am afraid my chagrin amounted almost to sulkiness sometimes.
— from Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Adele Garrison