Let the reader, if he can, imagine Rousseau to have written "Dinner, Real and Reputed," or the paper on "The Essenes," in both of which great erudition is necessary, but in which erudition is as nothing when compared to the faculty of recombining into novel forms what previously had been so grouped as to be misunderstood, or had lacked just the one element necessary for introducing order.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

"I don't believe it," says Hazel; "Luclarion has a cut, a great big buff one with green eyes.
— from Real Folks by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

Now you and I are going to get a fish and put him to cook, and after that we’ll try and find a bit of wood good enough for a bow.”
— from Rob Harlow's Adventures: A Story of the Grand Chaco by George Manville Fenn

[pg 219] Of course much must depend on the nature of the timber and the moisture of the soil; thus a strong tree on the verge of a swamp may be overthrown with greater ease than a small and low one in parched and solid ground.
— from Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

She had been out when Georgie entered—out for a walk, Mrs. Penticost had said.
— from Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

The young ladies took her under their wing, glad to have her in the choir and the King's Daughters' Circle, for she was bubbling over with girlish enthusiasm and a sincere desire to help.
— from The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

But these were not the only extraordinary breed of wild geese, extant.
— from Curious Creatures in Zoology by John Ashton

With much satisfaction a Light Horseman gave Mac particulars of the occurrence: "My bloomin' oath, we got 'em fine.
— from The Tale of a Trooper by Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes) Mackenzie

She wears a black dress with stiffened collar behind, ornamented with gold embroidery, open at the neck, disclosing a pink bodice also richly embroidered, the sleeves furred at the elbows.
— from Chats on Costume by G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft) Rhead

Among the many who passed hours in his company at this time, there was but one who guessed, even distantly, at what lay at the root of his being, and this was the man who, being in a measure of like nature with his own, had been in the same way possessed when deep passion came to him.
— from His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett