If you yield in regard to dancing in private parties, you will be invited, in due time, to attend a ball.
— from Popular Amusements by J. T. (Jonathan Townley) Crane

Sometimes a regimental crest was worked out, with elaborate attention to detail, in pebbles, painted yellow, blue, and green.
— from A Padre in France by George A. Birmingham

"It does," I panted; "perhaps you are—willing to hear reason—now?"
— from The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol

There are more comfortable days in Panama, per year, than in New York.
— from Prowling about Panama by George A. (George Amos) Miller

The engine design is purely provisional, you'll understand— and the horsepower is provisionally fixed at 12-78.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920 by Various