“Yes; but it’s good of you to give me the chance to hire a schooner to help get your daughter back again,” said Hillary, as he realised the exact position and all that the girl’s future welfare meant to him.
— from Gabrielle of the Lagoon: A Romance of the South Seas by W. H. (William Henry) Myddleton

All these agencies have great value; but I think few of us realize that nature, through the laws of evolution, has long been working to produce a brave and strong, healthy and hardy race of men and women by other methods than those health habits which most of us value so highly.
— from Homo-Culture; Or, The Improvement of Offspring Through Wiser Generation by M. L. (Martin Luther) Holbrook

Moreover, she had an acute and alert brain; and she had a hundred reasons ready to show that what was in reality a mere waywardness on her part was the most wise and natural thing in the world; while her father, who had a habitual and great tolerance for everything and everybody that came within his reach, laughed with her rather than at her, and said she should do very well without book-learning so long as those pink roses shone in her cheeks.
— from Judith Shakespeare: Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black

When they came to where the road disappeared under the swift unbroken brown of Gila River, the old horse paused of her own accord, and, turning her bony and scarred head a half revolution, stared almost rudely at the occupants of the buggy.
— from The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris

itors were in light summer blouses and straw hats, and had round tin cases suspended from a strap over their shoulders; they were evidently men of education.
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

Having effected this by a stratagem, he attacks his retainers, and repossesses himself of the lady.
— from The Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo

But as he held up his hand and swore that the identity of the corpse was such and such, he remembered how graceful she had been at sixteen, how affectionate, how ready to forgive.
— from The Penalty by Gouverneur Morris