One of the most intelligent officials in the Agricultural Department is a Panwār, and several members of the caste have made large sums as forest and railway contractors in this District; Panwār shikāris are also not uncommon.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

This being a long stage, I lent my ass to a sick Beluch, and we accomplished the journey, notwithstanding the great distance, in a pleasant and spirited manner.
— from What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke

Judge White, then his personal and political friend, [329] followed Mr. Webster in the debate on the Veto Message and in the course of his speech laid down, in a perspicuous and satisfactory manner, the principles applicable to the question of the relative powers and duties of the several departments of the General Government which President Jackson then, as he had at all times, sustained.
— from Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Martin Van Buren

It is of this class that successful men are made, and we have hopes that Robert will develop into a prosperous and successful man.
— from Brave and Bold; Or, The Fortunes of Robert Rushton by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

They found a patch of it on a bone that was discovered in a pond at St. Mary Cray, and a similar patch on one that was found at some place in Essex.
— from The Vanishing Man A Detective Romance by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

"Yes. They found a patch of it on a bone that was discovered in a pond at St. Mary Cray, and a similar patch on one that was found at some other place in Essex.
— from The Eye of Osiris by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

The Negro stands to-day upon an eminence that overlooks more than two decades spent in efforts to ameliorate the condition of seven million immortal souls by opening before their hitherto dark and cheerless lives possibilities of development into a perfect and symmetrical manhood and womanhood.
— from Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days by Annie L. Burton

And yet— And yet it was over Raffles that she took all the wind from my sails, exactly as she had done at Lord's, only now she did it at parting, and sent me off into the dusk a slightly puzzled and exceedingly exasperated man.
— from Mr. Justice Raffles by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung