"Then I suppose I've been voted a coward long ago," Reade nodded.
— from The Young Engineers in Nevada; Or, Seeking Fortune on the Turn of a Pick by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

'He—he certainly looks all right now,' he said. '
— from The House That Grew by Mrs. Molesworth

What we did was in truth and substance, and in a constitutional light, a revolution, not made, but prevented.
— from Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke

Chateau and cabin, trail and forest road, soldier and civilian, lake and river, now moonlit, now sunlit, now under ice and white with snow, were of the shifting scenes in that play.
— from D'Ri and I: A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Second War with the British. Being the Memoirs of Colonel Ramon Bell, U.S.A. by Irving Bacheller

With the aid of his key he scribbled below the figures the corresponding letters, and read: NELSON A SUIVRE VILLENEUVE 9 NAVIRE 2 FREGATE SORTENT DE P MERCREDI BINSEY COVE LUNDI.
— from Jack Hardy: A Story of English Smugglers in the Days of Napoleon by Herbert Strang

No Chemistry for them unfolds her gases, No Metaphysics are let loose in lectures, No Circulating Library amasses Religious novels, moral tales, and strictures Upon the living manners, as they pass us; No Exhibition glares with annual pictures; They stare not on the stars from out their attics, Nor deal (thank God for that!) in Mathematics.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Each morning he returned re-invigorated to the [188] contest, like Antæus refreshed, not from a fabulous contact with mother earth, but from a real communion with Mr. Calhoun!
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

So quickly did it come upon us, so little did we look for it, that when Kess Denton, the yellow man, stood at the open gate and uttered a loud and piercing yell of defiance, not one among us could lift a rifle, not one thought of plan or action.
— from The House Under the Sea: A Romance by Max Pemberton