But when she saw her prayers nought prevaile, She backe returned with some labour lost; 210 And in the way as shee did weepe and waile, A knight her met in mighty armes embost, Yet knight was not for all his bragging bost, But subtill Archimag, that Una sought By traynes into new troubles to have tost: 215 Of that old woman tidings he besought, If that of such a Ladie she could tellen ought.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

And you already know how much it meant to me to have the General so nice to me and the officer of the day so attentive and complimentary; and how happy I was to have my programme filled up so that there was no danger of my being a wall-flower.
— from Mary Ware in Texas by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

The doctor, recalling with some shame his good resolutions, followed with all possible haste, though by the conventional means of exit, and when he entered the house, he beheld the runaway hugging and kissing his mother in most frantic fashion.
— from The Worst Boy in Town by John Habberton

Wherever a lilac bush could go a lilac bush went; and not common sorts, but a variety of good sorts, white, and purple, and pink, and mauve, and he must have planted it with special care and discrimination, for it grows here as nothing else will, and keeps his memory, in my heart at least, for ever gratefully green.
— from The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth Von Arnim

"This is my treat," he said, and knowing how much it meant to him I gladly accepted.
— from A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

Exactly how this laboriously acquired knowledge helped me in my quest for hidden treasure the reader shall now learn, and I will take as an 219 illustration the test imposed upon me at Oakland, California, where two hundred and fifty dollars in gold was actually hidden.
— from Twenty Years of Spoof and Bluff by Carlton