Alice Manners are not taught in lessons; lessons teach you to do sums, and things of that sort.
— from Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg

Hsüan Chuang was a notable reformer and probably after his time Indian words were rendered in Chinese characters as accurately as Chinese words are now transcribed in Latin letters.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

And he went that very day and bought himself a New Testament in large letters, and began to read.
— from Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

At night the Indians lit large fires around the camp and kept a strict look out.
— from A correct and authentic narrative of the Indian war in Florida with a description of Maj. Dade's massacre, and an account of the extreme suffering, for want of provision, of the army—having been obliged to eat horses' and dogs' flesh, &c, &c. by Barr, James, Captain

The modern boudoir, hung with dabs of mediæval rags, and stuffed with furniture and nicknacks till it looks like a transplanted bit of Wardour Street, is often not very cleanly; and when the daylight is excluded to a maximum extent, lest fading should take place, and the sun's rays never have a chance of disinfecting the dust upon and behind the curios, it cannot be wholesome.
— from The Dwelling House by George Vivian Poore

Neither of us has had a case yet, and now that it looks like I was going to get one, you're jealous.
— from Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented Town, Certain Peculiar Citizens, and Two Fortunate Lovers A Novel by Emerson Hough

For the past three hundred years it has been crumbling to ruins, and now there is little left except a single wall and a remnant of the sable palisade, That closed the castle barricade before which Marmion's bugle-horn was sounded.
— from The Country of Sir Walter Scott by Charles S. (Charles Sumner) Olcott