I have also enjoyed access to all the other great collections of this country and Europe, and have had at my elbow the entire literature relating to the subject.
— from The Butterfly Book A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

Crawford and Merritt engaged the enemy lightly just before night, but his main column, retreating along the river road south of the Appomattox, had got across Namozine Creek, and the darkness prevented our doing more than to pick up some stragglers.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

De trader-man and Marse Everett talk er long time after dat and den Marse Everett cum ter me and say, 'Cum with me, Dicey, everything's all right now.
— from The Lead of Honour by Norval Richardson

His fancy had expatiated upon a moonlit elopement, the escaping lovers pursued by an infuriated father.
— from The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Lady Barbara's house in town was let for another fortnight, and Duddon's Castle was more agreeable and more economical than either lodgings or a hotel.
— from The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

These enormous rockets pass to a very great distance and are made either to explode like shells, or burn fiercely for several minutes, like what are called “carcases,” thus setting fire to houses, &c., against which they may be directed; but hitherto their course has been but little under control, and therefore not much to be depended on.
— from The Boy's Book of Industrial Information by Elisha Noyce