The arrival of company at the house, the arranging of dinners and suppers “in style,” awoke all the energies of her soul; and no sight was more welcome to her than a pile of travelling trunks launched on the verandah, for then she foresaw fresh efforts and fresh triumphs.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Well, perhaps, if in the beginning of a book these were written and printed, many, when they read it, would lay the book down and say, "It seems to me a very miserable title, I don't like things of this sort."
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Hence you may best be regarded as always plural in form, but may be described as singular in sense when it stands for one person only.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

When King Magnus heard of this, he ordered a large fleet and army to be levied in Denmark, and sailed in summer to Vindland with all his forces, which made a very large army altogether.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

An apple charlotte came upon a silver dish, and smilingly Irene said: “The azaleas are so wonderful this year!”
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Some of his descendants are still in Sindhia’s service (Compton, European Military Adventurers , 352 ff.; Sleeman, Rambles , 115, note).
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

I tremble when I think what my mother would do and say if she found out my situation.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I Virgil then, of sweet Parthenope The nursling, wooed the flowery walks of peace Inglorious, who erst trilled for shepherd-wights The wanton ditty, and sang in saucy youth
— from The Georgics by Virgil

“When I get a moment to myself I sit down and say, ‘In six weeks I shall see Archie!’
— from Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

With a shout of defiance he jumped out of the door and slammed it shut after him, feeling it grow searing hot an instant later under the impact of the rays from the tubes that had been trained on him.
— from The Red Hell of Jupiter by Paul Ernst

An idea of the position accorded to Oersted by his colleagues in the world of science may be gathered from an address made by Sir John Herschel at the closing session of the Southampton meeting of the British Association in 1836, in which the distinguished astronomer said: "In science, there is but one direction which the needle will take when pointed towards the European continent, and that is towards my esteemed friend, Professor Oersted.
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian

I know I feel just now as if I was living at the rate of thirty-six hours a day, and so, I suppose, the fewer hours we stop here the better."
— from A Honeymoon in Space by George Chetwynd Griffith

Ours is broken down, and Stella is struck by lightning, and, oh, Carter, do help us!"
— from Marjorie's Vacation by Carolyn Wells

Drive A Ship is said to drive, when her Anchors will not hold her fast; to prevent which, they Veer out more Cable, (for the more she has out, the surer and safer she Rides) or else they let go more Anchors.
— from A Naval Expositor Shewing and Explaining the Words and Terms of Art Belonging to the Parts, Qualities and Proportions of Building, Rigging, Furnishing, & Fitting a Ship for Sea by Thomas Riley Blanckley

"Doris and Strephon, I see?"
— from Shrewsbury: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

After the lapse of what she deemed a sufficient interval, she went to see Mrs. Martin, and to listen dumbly to her narration of her brother's death, and to her simple eulogies.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

the cause of liberty, individual, domestic, and social; in short, a cause embracing all those ordinances without which no public [401] or private right, no property, or virtue, or justice, or peace, could be maintained.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

A roof has to be put on, and there are no raffia leaves ready, dried and sewn into sheets; there is some building to be done, and there are no beams and no boards; or the best time for brickmaking has been allowed to pass unused; or he has postponed too long the re-smoking of the { 162} store of dried fish for the school children, and discovers one morning that it is all a mass of worms and good for nothing!
— from On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa by Albert Schweitzer