"I've thinned down one of them 'ere cans of soup you was so extravagant as to buy when Sammy went ashore last," Uncle Zenas replied, "an' it smells good enough to eat."
— from The Light Keepers: A Story of the United States Light-house Service by James Otis

For above the continual running on of house-rent, the neglect and unnecessary expensive charge of servants; you consume your self also much mony in travelling and pleasure; besides the peril and uneasiness that you suffer to please and complaite your new married Mistris.
— from The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh

Mr. Goodwin's academic education consisted of several years of study at the academy at South Berwick, an institution having at that time a good deal of local importance, and then, as now, the only school in the vicinity of his birthplace where a fitting for college could be obtained.
— from Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men by Various

And yet when she heard at last that Compiegne was being closely besieged and likely to be captured, and that the enemy had declared that no inhabitant of it should escape massacre, not even children of seven years of age, she was in a fever at once to fly to our rescue.
— from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 by Mark Twain

apparently endless corridors of Scotland Yard.
— from The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace

In California it was thought that the Great Spirit sent, in a vision, to every child of seven years of age, the appearance of some animal to be its protector or guardian.
— from Serpent-Worship, and Other Essays, with a Chapter on Totemism by C. Staniland (Charles Staniland) Wake

It derives its name from the early custom of sending yearly a penny from every house to the successor of St. Peter, as a mark of respect or as an alms for some charity.
— from A Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Anonymous

But you," and he turned to the expectant crowd of suppliants, "you can just go to where you came from; you have only got what you deserved."
— from The Strange Story of Rab Ráby by Mór Jókai

Seldom had my experiments on rotifers and tardigrades been surrounded with equal chances of success, yet they had always succeeded.
— from The Man With The Broken Ear by Edmond About