Frightened out of my senses almost, I had just time to escape down a little hole in the floor, made by one of the knots in the wood slipping out, and there I heard one of the girls exclaim— ‘O dear!
— from The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse by Dorothy Kilner

France.—-The French Academy (l'Academie Francaise) was established by order of the king in the year 1635, but in its original form existed four or five years earlier.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

But occurrences of this kind, if they could be multiplied, would prove only that we are liable to illusions in sleep, in regard to the comparative merits of our intellectual products, which we imagine ourselves to be creating when we are in that state, as we are in regard to other things.
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

"I've got a date to go to the movies," said Lorna, and she bounced out of the kitchen into the hall singing: "Oh by heck You never saw a wreck Like the wreck she made of me.
— from The Day of the Beast by Zane Grey

McKeever gets out in front, and he hasn't made more than a dozen jumps before one of the kids inside the rail throws a whoop that makes the people in the stand put their hands to their ears.
— from Taking Chances by Clarence Louis Cullen