" It didn't take long to put more powder in the basin, light it and utter the syllable "EE!"
— from Glinda of Oz In Which Are Related the Exciting Experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in Their Hazardous Journey to the Home of the Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers, and How They Were Rescued from Dire Peril by the Sorcery of Glinda the Good by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Major Slocum had been late in arriving upon the scene, but what he now said earned for him instant attention.
— from Local Color by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

It was because it was so tranquil, so different from the playing-fields, and because the sun seemed to linger around this old garden longer than anywhere else, that the dreamy boy loved it, and used to steal there when he was well.
— from The Hero of Garside School by Panting, J. Harwood, (James Harwood)

Notwithstanding all this, there is such a similarity in the appearance and habits of the different species, that I think the systematists have improved but little, if anything, upon the simple arrangement of the true naturalist Wilson, who—poor Scotch émigré as he was, with an empty purse and a loaded gun—has collected more original information about the birds of America than all that have followed him.
— from The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North by Mayne Reid