mutter'd, 'D—n her,' But nothing else, the time of words was o'er; He cast a rueful look or two, and did, He knew not wherefore, that which he was bid.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Whatever may be the reader's opinion as to the degree of importance which the Courts of Love occupied in the attention of their contemporaries, I beg him to consider what to-day, in 1822, are the subjects of conversation among the most considerable and richest ladies of Toulon and Marseilles.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Co. Everyday Birds Bradford Torrey Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music F. S. Mathews Putnam's Sons First Book of Birds H. M. Miller Second Book of Birds H. M. Miller Flamingo Feather Munroe How to Attract the Birds Neltje Blanchan Doubleday, Page & Co. How to Attract the Birds Trafton How to Know the Birds H. & E. Parkhurst Scribners How to Know the Wild Birds of Ohio Dietrich Lange How to Study Birds In Birdland Leander S. Kyser McClurg Co. Land Birds East of the Rockies C. A. Reed Lord of the Air C. G. D. Roberts Nestlings of Forest and Marsh Irene G. Wheelock McClurg Co.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

But nothing else, the time of words was o'er; He cast a rueful look or two, and did, He knew not wherefore, that which he was bid.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

While a superficial glance justified such a procedure, a moment’s reflection proves it to be a delusion, and for this reason, that there will be an unavoidable irritation of the stomach which the journey of the farinaceous material occasions in its passage through the stomach, and the insufficient nutritive value of a simple non-nitrogenous diet causes a rapid loss of tissue and bodily strength; hence this course proved itself impracticable and was abandoned.
— from Femina, A Work for Every Woman by John A. (John Alexander) Miller

The period was a dramatic period, crowded with unusual and startling happenings, as far removed as possible from the quiet commonplaceness and routine life of the average boy and girl of to-day; and the reader is cautioned to remember this—if disposed at any time to think the incidents narrated in the present tale too improbable or too startling to have ever happened—that they could not happen to-day, even in California; but they might have all happened then and there in California.
— from The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49 by Everett McNeil

The blazing pine log cast a red light over them as they sat at the table.
— from Added Upon A Story by Nephi Anderson