Oh, I can't make things clearer, but you are so kind and nice that you will understand—and help!
— from The House 'Round the Corner by Louis Tracy

It was a slip knot, and now that no weight kept it taut, it loosened easily.
— from The Watchers: A Novel by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

They were the first white men to explore southern and southwestern Kentucky, although not the first to visit it, for in 1730 John Salling of Virginia was brought a prisoner by the Cherokee Indians to the Tennessee.
— from Stories of Old Kentucky by Purcell, Martha C. Grassham, Mrs.

The ladies of the Methodist Church were going to collect a certain amount each month to support a soup kitchen as near the Front as possible.
— from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart

3 This author has given a clear picture of the common family fireplace and sleeping chamber in which each person fell asleep as best he might upon rugs and skins, keeping as near the “toneer” as possible.
— from Armenian Legends and Festivals by Louis A. (Louis Angelo) Boettiger

[97] Wood (MS. F 29 a, f. 176) after quoting this Inquisition, goes on: ‘besides w ch they had another large piece of ground of y e said Agnes since knowne (as now tis) as part of paradise garden;’ and he adds in the margin: ‘another piece of land they had w ch was Tho.
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

But it was, as she knew, absolutely necessary that her uncle should be informed of her purpose.
— from The Golden Lion of Granpere by Anthony Trollope

It was as though from her childhood till now she had lived in a moral world whereof the aims, the dangers, the joys, were all she knew; and now the walls of this world were crumbling round her, and strange lights, strange voices, strange colours were breaking through.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.