The climate here in London is simply atrocious—either rain or fog all the time.
— from Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Slason Thompson

Thirty seconds later, McAllister, in sword, doublet, hose, and feathered cap, burst into the waiting-room, carrying an ulster, clearing half its length in six strides, threw himself through the revolving door to the platform, and sprang past the astonished gate-man just as he was sliding-to the gate.
— from McAllister and His Double by Arthur Cheney Train

But he, not content with his plunder and booty and the cruelties he inflicted, led into servitude the people there, to their infinite woe, and with them Eudoxia the wife of the Emperor Valentinian, who had only recently been assassinated by his own soldiers.
— from The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) by Giorgio Vasari

" "I don't care how I look," I said, recklessly.
— from Bab: A Sub-Deb by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The charm, however, is less in such detached beauties, however exquisite, than in the condensed opulence—"every epithet a text for a canto," says Macaulay—and in the general impression of "plain living and high thinking," pursued in the midst of every charm of nature and every refinement of culture, combining the ideal of Horton with the ideal of Cambridge.
— from Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

The following statement was made by Prof. C. F. Brommer, Hampton, Nebraska, president of the Lutheran Synod of Missouri, at the hearing before the state Americanization Committee held in Lincoln in September, 1918: I think we have more parochial schools than any other Protestant body in this state; between 150 and 160, with about 5,000 children in these schools.
— from A Stake in the Land by Peter A. (Peter Alexander) Speek