Similar banks of mud or sand, or both, render unnavigable every river that flows through the country.
— from The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese by Ernest Young

By this time they had descended a long narrow flight of uncarpeted stairs, ‘the back ones,’ as Mysie explained, and had reached a slippery oak hall with high-backed chairs, and all the odds and ends of a family-garden hats, waterproofs, galoshes, bats, rackets, umbrellas, etc., ranged round, and a great white cockatoo upon a stand, who observed—‘Mysie, Cockie wants his breakfast,’ as they went by towards the door, whence proceeded a hubbub of voices and a clatter of knives and jingle of teaspoons and cups, a room that as Mysie threw open the door seemed a blaze of sunshine, pouring in at the large window, and reflected in the glass and silver.
— from The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

It is to be hoped, however, in the interests of humanity, that the country may be retained under Egyptian rule, the more especially as Khartoum is as essential to Egypt as our frontier position at Quetta is to India.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, January 1885 by Various

Before the bell could be answered, a big boy rushed up, exclaiming roughly, "Get out of this!
— from Lulu's Library, Volume 3 (of 3) by Louisa May Alcott