Well, you’re going to be rid of us soon
— from A Foregone Conclusion by William Dean Howells

Busy with her thoughts, Barbara rode on until she had passed out of the settled district of which Kingston was the center and found herself in the desert.
— from The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright

135 “I know now why Zack and Silas were so anxious to be rid of us,” said Archie.
— from Snowed Up; or, The Sportman's Club in the Mountains by Harry Castlemon

A New Edition, by John Baron, of Queen’s College (now Dr. Baron, Rector of Upton Scudamore), Oxford, John Henry Parker, 1850.
— from Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle

With one desperate splurge , up jumps the beau; rushes out, up stairs—gets on his clothes, and we did not see him again for over two years!
— from The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

He had banked his market cheque—the Boone Lake Bank remaining open until seven in the evening on market days—and had spent a blissful half-hour on the Hammerton porch with Ruth on the way home.
— from Buff: A Collie, and Other Dog-Stories by Albert Payson Terhune