Sometimes as many as twenty families united in the purchase of an estate, and constructed artificial lakes large enough to sail upon.
— from Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch by Mary E. Bradley Lane

"I can hardly consider myself wise enough to teach my mother," said the Captain, colouring and laughing lightly, "even though she is far too young to be own mother to a man of my age."
— from Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds by Martha Finley

“If I can not in time save enough money for the Steamship Company,” he said to Shakib, “I can at least leave enough to settle the undertaker’s bill.
— from The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani