With christian love and respect, Yours truly, Catharine E. Beecher .
— from Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator, with Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage by Catharine Esther Beecher

[1119] Some weeks later, on Sep. 1, Luther himself wrote to Staupitz, his superior, that his conscience told him he was in the right and with the truth on his side; “Christ liveth and reigneth yesterday, to-day and for ever”; he also tells him, that, in his “Resolutions,” and in his replies to Prierias he had spoken freely, and in a language that would wound the Romanists, and that he was ready, nay anxious, to give the brassy Romans an even ruder German answer in the service of Christ, the Shepherd of the people.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Arissa generously gave Sir Percival a look that could have frozen several pounds of choice lobster, and replied, "You must be kidding."
— from Stories from the Old Attic by Robert A. (Robert Alan) Harris

The clerk, young Utie, who was somewhat flushed, addressed the chief ladler and remarked: "You dam nigger, didn't you see my glass?"
— from Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend

“See here,” he said, speaking rapidly, “my clothes look all right yet, but I'm broke.
— from Carter, and Other People by Don Marquis

[62] CHAPTER VII THE POSSIBILITIES OF A CLOTHES-LINE YOU can form it into graceful patterns of curves and coils, loops and rings; you can weave it basket-fashion or net it together with brass curtain-rings, and you can fray it out into soft, pretty tassels.
— from Indoor and Outdoor Recreations for Girls by Lina Beard

Twas comin’ down the wind—clippin’ it toward my overgrown lump of a craft like a racin’ yacht.
— from Every Man for Himself by Norman Duncan

Stephie's playing the piano and [Pg 255] Gertie's reciting, Merle croaks like a raven, you and Chris don't learn singing, Addie's no ear for tune, and the rest of us, as Leddie says, 'have no puff'.
— from For the Sake of the School by Angela Brazil