As the four lads were all of a decidedly lively disposition, it was thought best to send them to a boarding school, and in the first volume of the second series, entitled "The Rover Boys at Colby Hall," I related what happened to them while attending this institution.
— from The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck; Or, Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields by Edward Stratemeyer

At first the four lads were kept at home, but then it was thought best [iv] to send them to a boarding school, and in the first volume of the second series, entitled “The Rover Boys at Colby Hall,” I related what happened to them while attending this institution.
— from The Rover Boys Under Canvas; Or, The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine by Edward Stratemeyer

" She craved the boon so sweetly That I had been a churl Had I repulsed the homage Of this gentle, timid girl; With bright illuminations I decked the manuscript, And in my choicest paints and inks My brush and pen I dipt.
— from The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac by Eugene Field

Government House was never again, in our time, a bright and cheerful home: it returned to its bachelor ways; and business, not social pleasure, presided there.
— from Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by Henriette McDougall

A good "B" blacklead pencil has the advantage of being pleasant to handle, and capable of being used with a sufficiently fine point to [104] render some details; it has, however, the decided disadvantage of "rubbing" with a very little touching, and the strokes, although fairly intense, are not so black as crayon; hence, in reproduction, many portions which were expected to come out soft and delicate, reproduce much too black.
— from A Handbook of Illustration by A. Horsley (Alfred Horsley) Hinton

I was eighteen, and for some little time had been assisting Col. Hays in recruiting a regiment around my old home.
— from The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself by Cole Younger

My native country can boast of no such beauty as bloomed at Château Hougoumont: its rugged clime produces no fruitful fig-trees, n
— from Waterloo Days: The narrative of an Englishwoman resident at Brussels in June 1815 by Charlotte A. (Charlotte Anne) Eaton

Become a capitalist, his instincts revolted against spending money needlessly, when every pound, often less, would buy a cow, which cow would turn into fifty head of cattle in a few years.
— from Babes in the Bush by Rolf Boldrewood

With Milborne, now his son-in-law, and eight others, Leisler was arraigned before a court having inveterate royalists as judges.
— from Dutch and English on the Hudson: A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Maud Wilder Goodwin

It has been decided in Pennsylvania that if he has a chance to turn out and refuses to do so, and his steed or himself is injured by a collision, he is remediless.
— from The Road and the Roadside by Burton Willis Potter