Then I’ll tell Nora to fix you up a nice dainty tray and you’ll be under no nervous strain at all.
— from That Awful Letter: A Comedy for Girls by Edna I. MacKenzie

But until now no such step was taken, probably because one feared the enormity of the evil that would then become manifest.
— from Woman and Socialism by August Bebel

But when the social conditions of development will be the same for both sexes, when there will be no restriction for either, and when the general state of society will be a healthful one, woman will rise to a height of perfection that we can hardly conceive to-day, because until now no such conditions have existed in human evolution .
— from Woman and Socialism by August Bebel

Miss Judy overslept and did not blow the rising bugle until nearly noon, so dinner took the place of breakfast and swimming hour came in the middle of the afternoon instead of in the morning.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at Camp Keewaydin; Or, Paddles Down by Hildegard G. Frey

But, instead of the telephone call to Jamieson's office, for which she had waited with poorly concealed impatience from breakfast until nearly noon, she had a visit from Jamieson himself.
— from The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm; Or, Bessie King's New Chum by Jane L. Stewart

"Then what are you doing here, if you bring us no news?" snarled Gato, whereat Nicolas began to tremble.
— from The Young Engineers in Mexico; Or, Fighting the Mine Swindlers by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Milton, in the First Book of Paradise Lost, treats the Pagan gods as being, under new names, so many of the fallen angels, who with Satan had rebelled, and with him had been driven out from heaven, so that the world of heathen from the first had simply ‘devils to adore for deities.’
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3 Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

Spare us, Spirit who canst summon our dead sins from the grave of time, and make them walk alive before us.” “Nay, nay,” she answered, mockingly, “surely I am but a woman, daughter of a Teacher who lives yonder over the Tugela, a white maiden who eats and sleeps and drinks as other maidens do.
— from The Ghost Kings by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The position they occupied was an undulating plain beside the Teitar River; the country presented no striking feature of picturesque beauty, but the scene before us needed no such aid to make it one of the most interesting kind.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever