It is impossible to count upon renewing such effects as those in Formosa, The Flying Scud, and in the Prodigal Daughter at Drury Lane, wherein the wrong horse was poisoned (in a really dramatic scene), and Leonard Boyne , riding the winner, cleared the brook, thus causing part-author Druriolanus to clear—any amount of money.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893 by Various

I have seen that boy a few months after being cured, upright, ruddy, stout, eating heartily and beginning to grow faster than he had ever grown in his life.
— from Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

"Perhaps we can!" uttered Ruth, suddenly eager, and her brown eyes dancing.
— from Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies; Or, The Missing Pearl Necklace by Alice B. Emerson

Travelers through the country sometimes come upon rude stones erected to soldiers who have died "for the glory and freedom of his brother Serbs."
— from Serbia: A Sketch by Helen Leah Reed

It is probable, too, that you will become so habituated at last to the sight of inscriptions cut upon rock surfaces, especially if you travel much through the country, that you will often find yourself involuntarily looking for texts or other chisellings where there are none, and could not possibly be, as if ideographs belonged by natural law to rock formation.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn

Si continget, ut respondendum sit, ego profecto remunerabor istos nefarios viros sanguinum ."
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente