A visit to Reading or Abingdon twice a year, at assizes or quarter sessions, which the Squire made on his horse with a pair of saddle-bags containing his wardrobe, a stay of a day or two at some country neighbour's, or an expedition to a county ball or the yeomanry review, made up the sum of the Brown locomotion in most years.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

"I have always bad luck in making you comprehend these things, Mr. Jarvis."
— from Home as Found Sequel to "Homeward Bound" by James Fenimore Cooper

"There are several villages of them, but they have increased in numbers but little in many years since they are always warring among themselves."
— from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

'I'm goin' to set down by the lake for a minit; I guess there'll be some two-dollar bills left in Midway yet when we get there.
— from Against Odds: A Detective Story by Lawrence L. Lynch

Oh, light, I cried, and, heaven, with all your blue, Oh, earth, with all your sunny fruitfulness, And ye, tall lilies, of the wind-vexed field, What power and beauty life indeed might yield, Could we but cast away its conscious stress, Simple of heart, becoming even as you.
— from Among the Millet and Other Poems by Archibald Lampman

I've some bounce left in me yet, and I'll use it—see if I don't!
— from A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Angela Brazil

But they have always had all these—except that the slum has become larger in modern years.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick

If things appear to you to stand on this alternative, I think you will not be long in making your option.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The 9-inch drain-pipes ran through the centre of the house, having a very slight gradient, and had evidently not been laid in many years, yet they were nearly full of consolidated sewage, and but little space was left for the passage of the fluid.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

"There is," said Edward; "but Lucette is much younger, and not so tall.
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Not having any chances, I had little book learning in my youth, having to this day a regret concerning it.
— from Crooked Trails by Frederic Remington