Within a short time we had as much law work as we could do, and very interesting and novel, and frequently fatiguing, it was.
— from The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) by Lanier McKee

In this particular emergency, which touched his very life, Moses vented his disappointment and vexation in a number of interviews which he pretended to have had with the “Lord,” and which he retailed to the congregation, just at the moment when they needed, as Joshua perceived, to be steadied and encouraged.
— from The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Brooks Adams

The descendants of the Ulster Dubois are very influential and numerous in our day, but there is a tradition that this family at one time was in great danger of becoming extinct.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

“The Mayor, God bless him! has been taken in: this must not occur again, or Gatesboro’ is dishonoured, and Virtue indeed a name!”
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

“I would n't be guilty of the like; none that knows me would ever say it to me: I 'm a poor man—” “You're a devilish tiresome one,” broke in the youth, suddenly; “here we have been above half an hour standing at the door, and none the nearer our departure than when we arrived.” “Christy Moore could bridle her, if he was here,” said Andy; “but he's gone to Moate, and won't be back till evening; may be that would do?” A very impatient, and not very pious exclamation consigned Christy to an untimely fate.
— from Confessions Of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever