A selection of the best opal beads was immediately given him.
— from In the Heart of Africa by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

Also a few other things had been ordered by wire, I going with him to the telegraph-office to see him do it, being afraid to trust his memory, which, like his methods, is right put-offy.
— from Kitty Canary: A Novel by Kate Langley Bosher

It's like the Bay of Biscay when I go in, and I shall be glad if you'll kindly speak to him about it, sir.
— from Dimbie and I—and Amelia by Mabel Barnes-Grundy

“Things will soon be on the mend, and poor old Lawrence will get back to looking like it was before the flood, all but our bridge, which is gone where the woodbine twineth.”
— from The Boy Scouts in the Great Flood by Robert Shaler

As Mrs. Gerome entered the parlor and brightened the flame of the Psyche lamp, her eyes accidentally fell upon the bust of Beethoven, where, in gilt letters, she had inscribed his own triumphant declaration, “ Music is like wine, inflaming men to new achievements; and I am the Bacchus who serves it out to them .”
— from Vashti; Or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

You do me a great honour in your letter by putting me by the side of M. Burckhardt of Basle, whom I greatly admire; I think that I was the first man in France to announce in the press his great work upon the Culture of the Renaissance in Italy....
— from The life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Daniel Halévy

Cushions and ornamental cloths to place over the seats and backs of benches were in general use, and on special occasions the tapestries, some of which had been in the families for generations, were brought out, though apparently they were not used on ordinary occasions.
— from Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James

I didn't like the names at first, though they are Bible ones, but when I got to know and like the boys I liked the names.'
— from Teddy's Button by Amy Le Feuvre

During a partial lull in the conversation, this politician had the temerity to bawl out: "Barnum, what is going to be your next humbug?
— from Sawdust & Spangles: Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W. C. (William Cameron) Coup