"And its long melody shall sing the bliss of our lifetime," said Adam Forrester.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

But I have a son, sir, by order of law, some year elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account: though this knave came something saucily to the world before he was sent for, yet was his mother fair; there was good sport at his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged.
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

By Brady’s cottages a boy for the skins lolled, his bucket of offal linked, smoking a chewed fagbutt.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The mocking-bird and the grosbeak might possibly have been wild, had the question been one of latitude simply, but their demeanor satisfied me to [Pg 28] the contrary.
— from Birds in the Bush by Bradford Torrey

Bill Brown brought out one little surprise.
— from A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London

“I told you we’d each bring our own luncheon,” she reminded him.
— from The Wall Street Girl by Frederick Orin Bartlett

It was at that interesting and exciting moment that we bethought ourselves of Lord Stanley in the House of Lords on that day twelvemonth.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852 by Various

and to place another king on the throne of France, which is most abominable to the hearing of every heart in the breasts of our loyal subjects.
— from The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 02 [of 13] Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries by Enguerrand de Monstrelet