This kid’s too much for me,” came from the rasca 146 l’s companion, who was busily engaged now, not in attack, but in defending himself.
— from The Boy Inventors' Diving Torpedo Boat by Richard Bonner

Their Common Ground It is not infrequently said that Science is derived from Magic, and the tenet is strengthened by eminent names; nor is it displeasing to some bystanders whose attitude toward Science is one of imperfect sympathy; but it seems to me to involve a misunderstanding of the matter.
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

She had been bewilderingly initiated into the complex family tangle of the Neaves and Lorings, the Carstairs and Knightriders; John had drawn her ingenious plans to shew who had married whom, but every new name impaled her on a new genealogical tree, so that she openly dreaded her arrival in England and the threatened tour of inspection among her husband’s manifold connections.
— from The Secret Victory by Stephen McKenna

I be extra needy, now, I tell you!
— from The Life of Nancy by Sarah Orne Jewett

I dislik'd but even now; Now I love I know not how.
— from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 by Robert Herrick

Sulla, who with his troops had been encamping near Nola in Campania, marched upon the city, and for the first time a Consul entered Rome at the head of his legions.
— from Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Robert F. Pennell

From a pencil-sketch by Edward Nash, now in the possession of the editor 704 The Reverend George Coleridge.
— from Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" She seemed almost inclined to give him the word; but exclaiming, "No, no; I cannot," slipped through the garden-hedge and disappeared.
— from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy