In a hammock of beams and rafters, swinging like a network of trapezes, Monkey swooped down after him, head first as usual.
— from A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote) by Algernon Blackwood

" "All right, so long as none of you come too near.
— from The Talking Leaves: An Indian Story by William O. Stoddard

tittered Flora; ‘but of course you never did why should you, pray don’t answer, I don’t know where I’m running to, oh do tell me something about the Chinese ladies whether their eyes are really so long and narrow always putting me in mind of mother-of-pearl fish at cards and do they really wear tails down their back and plaited too or is it only the men, and when they pull their hair so very tight off their foreheads don’t they hurt themselves, and why do they stick little bells all over their bridges and temples and hats and things or don’t they really do it?’
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

There is even a case of amputation (and bronchitis) who reveals a new and rosy stump, like a new-born infant.
— from Light by Henri Barbusse

Gosselin St. Laurent, Montreal Montreal Jacques Cartier Q Joseph Le Cavalier [4] St. Laurent Marquette M Rev. J. Mulvihill St. Lazare St. Lazare Bellechasse Q Rev. E. Dufour St. Léon Dumontier Maskinongé Q F. X. A. Rivard St. Leonard Aston Nicolet Q Ludger Désilets St. Leonard’s, W. O. Victoria N B
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1873 by Canada. Post Office Department

We remain, in fact, in a state of suspense of judgment, a state perfectly right and reasonable so long as no action demanding a specific choice is forced upon us.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn

After reading so long ago, not understanding at the time and knowing she would only remember, without words, something that had come from the pages.
— from Deadlock: Pilgrimage, Volume 6 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson

We are all right so long as nobody gets sick or wounded, if we manage to get a tussle with the niggers (and I am in great hopes that when we strike the path, we may just drop on to them coming up it).
— from The Matabele Campaign Being a Narrative of the Campaign in Suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, 1896 by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

The others all reached St. Louis about noon on September 23d.
— from The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough