When my mother came up to tuck me into my little bed, as she did every night, and stooped over me to kiss me, I threw my arms round her neck and drawing her quite close whispered in her ear: “I do so love you!”
— from Coward or Hero? by Eugène (Dramatist) Leclerc

Come, neighbour Ross, I am come to eat a bit of your cold meat: I have been in the fields all the evening, and made but a short dinner, Ellen not being at home.
— from Mystery and Confidence: A Tale. Vol. 1 by Elizabeth Sibthorpe Pinchard

Susy had gone out—gone out with their usual band, as she did every night in these sultry summer weeks, gone out after her talk with Nick, as if nothing had happened, as if his whole world and hers had not crashed in ruins at their feet.
— from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

Move but a short distance either north or south from this spot, and the profile becomes distorted and is soon obliterated.
— from America, Volume 5 (of 6) by Joel Cook