It was little work to split these logs, for they were small, as you know, and to dig out the rabbits and slay them by a blow of the hand on the nape of the neck, back of the ears; and as she killed each rabbit she raised it reverently to her lips, and breathed from its nostrils its expiring breath, and, tying its legs together, placed it on the string, which after a while began to grow heavy on her shoulders.
— from Zuñi Folk Tales by Frank Hamilton Cushing

"Can you come with us, and still keep en rapport with your bird?"
— from Alien Minds by E. Everett (Edward Everett) Evans

'Fond, be blowed!' said he, starting; 'I just see him at this moment at the foot of that blessed old mahogany, proposing my health before the ladies go, and——' Here the schooner rose on a sharp, short wave, making a plunge through it that sent the helmsman swinging to the lee-side of the wheel, while a sea washed up over her forecastle, and away aft with the tubs, buckets, and spars, knocking everybody right and left.
— from The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant by George Cupples

By scoring deeply with a sharp knife each row of kernels on an ear of corn, the pulp may be pressed out with a knife.
— from The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

“Ah! next year we’ll be Sophomores, and Sophomores know everything,” retorted Julia.
— from Brenda's Cousin at Radcliffe: A Story for Girls by Helen Leah Reed

For more than thirty years Germany had been organizing her army; she knew every road, inn, bridge, factory, shop, and wholesale store in Denmark and Holland, Belgium and France.
— from The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon by Newell Dwight Hillis