“Wait a bit,” says the aggravating Ned, dipping his hands in the sawdust!
— from Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

Brodrick's brother-in-law lived with an extreme simplicity in one of those square white houses in St. John's Wood, houses secluded behind high, mysterious walls, where you entered, as by secret, through a narrow door.
— from The Creators: A Comedy by May Sinclair

A party of Gannets fishing is a beautiful sight; they are not divers like the Cormorant but feed on surface-swimming fish, and in winter often follow the shoals of herring and mackerel.
— from Birds of Britain by J. Lewis (John Lewis) Bonhote

" There was a brief silence, to allow, no doubt, for a collecting of thoughts.
— from The King's Scapegoat by Hamilton Drummond

College men were in American journalism from its early beginnings; but, speaking in a broad sense, the American newspaper drew most of its staff in the eighteenth century and in the first half of the nineteenth century from among men who had the rough but effective training of the composing room, with the common school as a beginning.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper