I know the distance now from San Antonio to Austin is but little over eighty miles, so that our computation was probably too high.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Some of 'em mebby united to 'em by links of earth-made metal, Sons of God married to the Daughters of men, mebby, and castin' their kingly crowns at the feet of a Human Love.
— from Samantha at the World's Fair by Marietta Holley

I curtsied low, he bowed lower; our eyes met for a moment, and then he fell behind.
— from Miscellanea by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

The functions of a healthy body go on, not by knowledge of physiology, but by the instinctive vigour of nature; and you will no more brace the spiritual faculties to noble energy and true life, by study of the uses of every feeling, than you can train an athlete for the race, by lectures on every muscle of every limb.
— from Unitarianism Defended A Series of Lectures by Three Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Liverpool by John Hamilton Thom

The oars, too, must have been lost or else Mr. Sheldon would have rowed over to me.
— from The Motor Boys Under the Sea; or, From Airship to Submarine by Clarence Young

These articles might be made of leather, or some other durable substance, in such a manner that they could be laced on every morning before commencing their labours.
— from The Dog by William Youatt

The first was the creaking of the wood-sleds, bringing their loads of oak and walnut from the country, as the slow-swinging oxen trailed them along over the complaining snow, in the cold, brown light of early morning.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

His new life, thus begun, lasted on earth more than sixty useful years.
— from The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Hezekiah Butterworth

"And give it an earthly body like ours?" exclaimed Miss Ludington.
— from Miss Ludington's Sister by Edward Bellamy

"Maybe he likes to be lonesome, or else maybe no one wants him to live near them.
— from Fairview Boys at Camp Mystery; or, the Old Hermit and His Secret by Frederick Gordon