A trifle restlessly, I looked about me in the bare room, empty except for us two.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Right opposite, as if for matrimonial ground-bait, a Notice that Whereas my wife, Lucretia Babb, has left my bed and board, I will not be responsible, etc., etc., from this date.—Jacob Penhallow (of the late firm Wibird and Penhallow) had taken Mr. William Murray Bradshaw into partnership, and the business of the office would be carried on as usual under the title Penhallow and Bradshaw, Attorneys at Law.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Rising in his stirrups, riding there as if he were a part of the animal itself, he was holding the bobbing rifle easily, eyes fixed on the mark that hung gleaming in the sunlight.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies; Or, The Secret of the Lost Claim by Frank Gee Patchin

Even that will be risky enough, even for you."
— from An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) by Buffalo Bill

Pepita, as I mentioned to you before, receives every evening, from nine to twelve.
— from Pepita Ximenez by Juan Valera

When fully fledged, the young do not entirely leave the nest, but return every evening for some weeks, in order to pass the night in the snug warmth that it affords them, and perhaps to receive instruction during the day, as to the means to be employed in obtaining food; they probably leave their protectors only when the autumn approaches.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

QUESTION: Is the use of the burial ring enjoined exclusively for adults, or is it for minors as well?
— from The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh