Adorning Fashion, unadorn'd by dress, Simple from taste, and not from carelessness; Discreet in gesture, in deportment mild, Not stiff with prudence, nor uncouthly wild: No state has AMORET!
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Not being able to do anything for Denny, I guessed I'd do what I could for Bright-eyes, so I stopped to get the silk bag.
— from Motor Matt's Mystery; or, Foiling a Secret Plot by Stanley R. Matthews

It is in every one's mouth, and many have a vague notion of its meaning, who yet, if required, would find no slight difficulty in giving its definition.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

301 Here also it is once more made clear that for Jesus the necessity of His death is grounded in dogma, not in external historical facts.
— from The Quest of the Historical Jesus A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede by Albert Schweitzer

“If my son Dick is going, I don’t see why I should hang back.”
— from In Greek Waters: A Story of the Grecian War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Tell Mirabell or Arnold dat it got in de wash wif dere daddy's pocket hankowitches."
— from The Story of a Calico Clown by Laura Lee Hope