"That Miss Meynell married a gentleman of Normandy, and left one only child, a son.
— from Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Afterward he made a great fortune as praetor and governor of Numidia, and lived in magnificence on the Quirinal,--one of the most profligate of the literary men of antiquity.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord

While the little angels down below were pattering about with their wax tapers, keeping the holy fire burning, suddenly the organ stopped, the monk shut his book with a bang, the boys blew out the candles, and I heard them all tumbling down stairs in a gale of noise and laughter.
— from Being a Boy by Charles Dudley Warner

For unless there exist intellectual power to determine aright what are the principia jam fixa et formata , and unless there be the wisdom of love preceding the love of wisdom, and unless to this be added a graciousness of nature, a loving kindness, ­ these rigorists are but bigots often to errors, and active, yea, remorseless in preventing or staying the rise and progress of truth.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thicken [ 115 ] with 1 heaping teaspoon of flour dissolved in a little milk, and add 1 tablespoon of butter and a grating of nutmeg, and let simmer gently for ten minutes more before serving.
— from The Golden Rule Cook Book: Six hundred recipes for meatless dishes by M. R. L. (Maud Russell Lorraine) Sharpe

Alas, our Englishmen are the plainest dealing soules that euer God put life in: they are greedie of newes, and loue to be fed in their humors and heare themselues flattered the best that may be.
— from The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Thomas Nash

You ain' gwine off nowhere, and leave me alone whils' you are hyuh, is you, suh?" "No," said the colonel, "I'll keep my eye on you.
— from The Colonel's Dream by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

I am going out now a little while.
— from The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion by Walt Whitman

She did not even catch a glimpse of Neddy, and learnt later from his mother that the boy had returned to town on the previous day.
— from The Red Bicycle by Fergus Hume

After waiting in vain for a long time, a group of negroes at length hastened by, when Cambridge, whose stock of patience was exhausted, joined them, and asked if they knew where Christiana was?
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan