"All right, get us some green cocoanuts off the trees."
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

Where the minor history, as we may call it, is thus connected with the greater story of the body politic, it always enables the mind to combine, in the sequence of cause and effect, a certain series of events in the course of the nation's life, leaving a more distinct apprehension of the reality of that life in the past, by giving a rapid glance, under strong light, over a part, than usually remains after the perusal of larger works which attempt the survey of the whole.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

We looked with longing after that branch of it opposite to us out of which the water issues: it seemed almost like a river gliding under steep precipices.
— from Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Dorothy Wordsworth

"Betty Leicester says that we can have this one summer more any way before we are really grown up," she suggested, and Mrs. Beck smiled and hoped they would enjoy it, but they couldn't keep time back do what they might.
— from Betty Leicester: A Story For Girls by Sarah Orne Jewett

Why does [pg 397] not He, our Maker and Ruler, give us some immediate knowledge of Himself?
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

Remember that character is far more important than intellect, and that a really great university should strive to develop the qualities that go to make up character even more than the qualities that go to make up a highly trained mind.
— from African and European Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt

But Sam gives us two shillings, and Annie threepence, and Norah and Rose give us some when we see them, so sometimes we have quite a lot.
— from Jill's Red Bag by Amy Le Feuvre

"Let's keep near the foot hills," I said, "because the brush and rocks give us some shelter and the antelope will not be so apt to see us."
— from The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon; Or, A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt