" "Stop, I must ask the conjuror," said Little Claus; so he trod on the bag, and stooped his ear down to listen.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The post, *t that great instrument of intellectual intercourse, now reaches into the backwoods; and steamboats have established daily means of communication between the different points of the coast.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Hartley Parrish's idea of "proper provision" for her, she knew, meant wealth for her beyond anything she had ever dreamed.
— from The Yellow Streak by Valentine Williams

To ask had been all she had ever done, and here was their lad, her son, failing her, defying her, unhearing when she cried, disobeying when she ordered.
— from The Rising of the Tide: The Story of Sabinsport by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell

SHE WAS PALE AND DEPRESSED; HER LIPS WERE BLUE, AND SHE HAD EVIDENT DIFFICULTY IN LOCOMOTION.
— from An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell

The post,{279} that great instrument of intellectual intercourse, now reaches into the backwoods; and steamboats have established daily means of communication between the different points of the coast.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

Also, moccasins were procured from the buckskin, and some had enough deer-skin to make covering for beds.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

She tried to puzzle it out and remember which way they had turned from the railroad but grew more bewildered, and the brilliant display in the west flamed alarmingly as she realized that night was coming on and she was lost on a great desert with only a wild tired little pony for company, hungry and thirsty and weary beyond anything she had ever dreamed before.
— from The Man of the Desert by Grace Livingston Hill

The sullen anger of Ourrias, his insult that does not spare Mirèio, the indignation of Vincèn, that fires him with unwonted strength, the battle of the two men out alone in the fields near the mighty Pont du Gard, Vincèn's victory in the trial of strength, the treachery of Ourrias, who sneaks back and strikes his enemy down with the trident.
— from Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer

An hour, an hour and a half had slipped by, and when the fourth half- hour was well begun, and still his eldest daughter did not return, the steward announced that they must set out, for that it would not do to keep the ship-builder's wife waiting.
— from The Emperor — Volume 04 by Georg Ebers

"Jerry's done more for Kathleen than her own brothers and sisters have ever done, unless it's Nora," declared Mrs. Mullarkey.
— from The Circus Comes to Town by Lebbeus Mitchell