Look how she revives beneath dew, rain, and sunshine, till your eyes can even scarce endure the lustre!
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

Dorothy readily agreed, so the Yellow Hen flew up and perched herself upon the dashboard.
— from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Have you the courage to put your foot down right, and say to your companions and friends: "I will never drink intoxicating liquor in all my life, nor will I countenance the habit in others."
— from The Abominations of Modern Society by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

In 1839 he gained the Prix de Rome , and spent three years in Rome, studying ecclesiastical music.
— from Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Edward MacDowell

"Mind," he went on, seeing that Tyler returned his searching gaze unflinchingly and without so much as a tremor, "I make a definite request, a suggestion that you should undertake this matter, for I am well aware that you are the most fitted for it.
— from With the Dyaks of Borneo: A Tale of the Head Hunters by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

You sticks to de road a spell, till you comes to a grave—what used to be—but it's done sunk in now till nuffin's thar but de stun an' some blackb'ry bushes clamberin' over it.
— from The Cromptons by Mary Jane Holmes

To the others he spoke sharply: "Go back to the exact positions in living room and dining room and solarium, that you occupied when Mrs. Marshall ran from the room."
— from Murder at Bridge by Anne Austin

That young woman very rarely appeared in the dining room, and so the young Virginian had scarcely more than met her, when one morning on his way to breakfast he came upon a battle between Robert—"free man of color," as he loved to call himself—and three Cairo boys who had waylaid him in order to avenge the punishment he had given a few days before to one of them who had playfully hurled half a brick through Barbara's kitchen window.
— from A Captain in the Ranks: A Romance of Affairs by George Cary Eggleston