"Been up chinning your sporting editor, Ragsy Hurd.
— from Queed: A Novel by Henry Sydnor Harrison

"But—dismissing that phase of it, can you still escape responsibility?
— from Fighting Byng: A Novel of Mystery, Intrigue and Adventure by A. Stone

how could you?" she exclaimed reproachfully, tears of disappointment and vexation springing to her eyes.
— from Elsie's Kith and Kin by Martha Finley

For a napoleon I received the address of a Parisian agent in the Rue Carcassonne, whose name I will confide in you, in case you should ever require his services.
— from The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

As you enter from the Orange River Colony, you see enormous rocks and "kopjes" jutting up here and there all around you, while every now and then up rises a majestic mountain, as a rule with table-land on the summit; below lie fertile valleys and more or less (generally less) level plains, and in the far distance, looking east, rises the beautiful range of the Malutis, a spur of the Drackensberg Mountains, which separate Basutoland from Natal.
— from Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs by Minnie Martin

The addresses of the provincial parliament in reply were highly satisfactory, and in answer Major-General Brock observed: "The congratulations offered upon my appointment to the honorable station I hold in this province, and the confidence you so early repose in me, are, be assured, received with pride and heartfelt satisfaction.
— from The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B. Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper by Brock, Isaac, Sir

how could you?" she exclaimed, reproachfully.
— from The Fatal Glove by Clara Augusta

en el pintado a cristo n. s r crucificado y sobre el retratado el medico asentado de forma que parecia le besava la santa Imagen en el culo.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea