And instead of being disappointed, she should be very happy that the bon Dieu had made it possible for her to come here at all, to be so close to Jean, and to be able to spend these hours here with his work—and even if it were days and days before it was finished, could she not still come here every night until it was done, and could she not still be able to see it then?
— from The Belovéd Traitor by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

The cook abused poor Chips right merrily, and called him every name under the sun, and would allow him no virtue, and very little intelligence.
— from The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton

The distance was about eighty yards, and Baden-Powell, telling the story, says that he felt so indignant at the fellow's rudeness that he rode at him as hard as he could gallop, calling him every name under the sun.
— from The Story of Baden-Powell 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps' by Harold Begbie

This was equivalent to asking for the slave; and the captive herself evinced no unwillingness to join the royal household; it having been foretold by an oracle that she would one day be the mother of kings.
— from Philothea: A Grecian Romance by Lydia Maria Child

I felt so indignant at this that I rode at him as hard as I could go, calling him every name under the sun; he aimed,—for an hour, it seemed to me,—and it was quite a relief when at last he fired, at about ten yards distance, and still more of a relief when I realized he had clean missed me.
— from Baden-Powell of Mafeking by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

The man, who was in a dreadful state of emaciation, and barely able to raise his voice above a whisper, was over six feet in height, and appeared to be about five-and-twenty years of age; his companions had evidently not undergone as much suffering and did not present the same shocking appearance as he, for the sun had burnt his skin to such a degree that that part of his tattooing which was not covered by the scanty lava lava of tappa cloth around his loins had become almost black.
— from A Memory of the Southern Seas 1904 by Louis Becke

The central mountain is made up of two principal peaks, nearly central, from which two bright curved hills extend nearly up to the N.W. wall,—the whole forming a V-shaped arrangement.
— from The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

“What shall I have to do, Charles?” said Frank, who, between astonishment and joy, could hardly even now understand what was passing.
— from Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H. C. (Henry Cadwallader) Adams

Well, I’ll come here every night unless she comes home.
— from Patience Sparhawk and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton