Then everybody traveled by steamboat, everybody drank, and everybody treated everybody else.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Roasting enterprises on a comparatively small scale (not by consumers, but by sufficiently expert dealers) would probably be much more numerous on account of the "fresh-roast" argument, except for the fact that coffee-roasting machines can not be installed so easily as the grinding mills, meat-choppers, and slicing machines, that find extended use in small stores.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

A brief space elapsed, during which the silence was broken only by whispers and a few suppressed titterings among the wedding-party and the spectators, who after the first shock were disposed to draw an ill-natured merriment from the affair.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Preferring the solitude of her room to the company of the persons below stairs, Emily dined above, and Maddelina was suffered to attend her, from whose simple conversation she learned, that the peasant and his wife were old inhabitants of this cottage, which had been purchased for them by Montoni, in reward of some service, rendered him, many years before, by Marco, to whom Carlo, the steward at the castle, was nearly related.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

My regiment lost four commissioned officers, all senior to me, by steamboat explosions during the Mexican war.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

On the highway and in the byways since early dawn there had been unusual animation; from one side a peasant's waggon creaked, flying like a post-chaise; from another a gentleman's gig ratded at full gallop, and met a second and a third; from the left-hand road a messenger rushed like a courier, from the right raced a dozen horses; all were hurrying, though they were headed in different directions.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

I know that for the last month he has been spending every day with you!"
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Bud shouted exuberantly, dismounting with a rush.
— from Cow-Country by B. M. Bower

Or is it proper for a grammarian to name sundry authorities on both sides, excite doubt in the mind of his reader, and leave the matter unsettled ?
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

The estate you speak of will not be so equally divided.
— from The Finger of Fate: A Romance by Mayne Reid

But here are you and I.” Through star shine we cantered side by side eastward down the old, empty freighting road, for the railway station at Fort Steele.
— from Desert Dust by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

It was with great difficulty that the Indians could be kept from tearing the padre’s robe from his body, so earnestly did they desire to possess some relic of the father they had loved so long.
— from History of California by Helen Elliott Bandini

At the price of enormous losses both sides escaped defeat in the field, but Lee's offensive was at an end and he retired into Virginia.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

She had with her a mandolin and a guitar with which, in addition to her sixteen hours of duty in the sick bay, she every day spent some time (usually an hour or two) on deck singing and playing for the soldiers who were much depressed by the epidemic.
— from The War Romance of the Salvation Army by Grace Livingston Hill

At times, if they happened to see me approach them, so as to have an opportunity to scrutinize me—which they are much given to, with people generally—they would not be so easily disconcerted at any question put to them in their language; but the result would be either direct replies, or the most ludicrous scenes of surprise and terror imaginable, which, to be enjoyed, were only to be seen, but could not be described, [288] although the sequel will in some measure illustrate them.
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson

In the Ember Weeks, to be said every day, for those that are to be admitted into Holy Orders .
— from The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland