It is the promise to reverse the memory of Achor, to turn defeat into victory even yet.
— from A Day at a Time, and Other Talks on Life and Religion by Archibald Alexander

Oof I vas sure oof dot, den I vould eat you oop like some ham santviches."
— from Motor Matt's Make Up; or, Playing a New Rôle by Stanley R. Matthews

Not even yet has the stern idol of war ceased to demand its victims; even yet brave hearts and noble minds must perish, and leave sterile the hopes of the elders and the love of woman.
— from The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Walter Besant

This one, Patrick, a bachelor, had already come into his kingdom; the youngest, a briefless barrister in comfortable circumstances, had married a farmer's daughter in very early youth (while reading for university honours during a long vacation spent in the farmer's house), and was the father of a sturdy schoolboy while himself not long emancipated from the rule of pastors and masters; and Kingscote was a flourishing young captain in the Guards—when the tragedy which shattered the family to pieces, and threw its vast property into Chancery, took place.
— from The Three Miss Kings: An Australian Story by Ada Cambridge