It makes [Pg 263] me sad when I remember how I saw her at the window, that last time, but I don't think I want to go back, anyway, now since Jack—Mr. Rabbit, I mean—is teaching me all about Deep Woods life and says he is not going to let me go back at all—ever!"
— from Hollow Tree Nights and Days by Albert Bigelow Paine

The fame of His Majesty Antonio Stradivari himself is not greater than that of Richard Duke in the eyes of many a Fiddle fancier.
— from The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart

At first, he thought maybe the government would get the bricks down for him, because since government bought the island, it ought to protect the property where a man has invested in good faith; but all he wants is quiet, and so he is not going to apply for the subsidy he was thinking about.
— from Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain

She stood under the lamp and the newspaper rattled as she held it now grasped tightly.
— from Old Ebenezer by Opie Percival Read

"You may rely upon it," said she, "a man that will do such a thing in a strange house is no gentleman."
— from Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

“Oh, yes, your Majesty, I know, I am sure he is not guilty!”
— from Roger Kyffin's Ward by William Henry Giles Kingston

It makes me sad when I remember how I saw her at the window, that last time, but I don't think I want to go back, anyway, now since Jack—Mr. Rabbit, I mean—is teaching me all about Deep Woods life and says he is not going to let me go back at all—ever!"
— from Mr. Rabbit's Wedding Hollow Tree Stories by Albert Bigelow Paine

Still Fred paid no attention, and the man rode up to him and leaned over, dropping a heavy hand on his shoulder and shaking him in no gentle way.
— from The Boy Scouts In Russia by John Blaine