But to Thee, Fountain of mercies, poured she forth more copious prayers and tears, that Thou wouldest hasten Thy help, and enlighten my darkness; and she hastened the more eagerly to the Church, and hung upon the lips of Ambrose, praying for the fountain of that water, which springeth up unto life everlasting.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Surely this Maud is not Maud de Beauchamp, as the Index entry implies, but the Empress Maud, daughter, and surviving heir, of Henry I, and mother of Henry II; and bitter rival of her cousin, Stephen of Blois, crowned King of England, while she was not quite crowned Queen.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

Too old to go enny mo’ dough, an’ so he has Mista Willum Lee to look aftah him.
— from Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison

One moment there was a line of gray helmets bobbing up and down the trenches as the line plodded on; and the next instant one could see only a line of black canvas close to the ground, as every man ducked and shifted his shoulder-sack over his neck.
— from A Soldier of the Legion by Edward Morlae

"I am lost—" "Aha!" said he, eyeing me dubiously and scratching his long, blue chin with the spout of his kettle.
— from Peregrine's Progress by Jeffery Farnol

What might be called the party of action and of extreme measures developed a sharp hostility to the President.
— from The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne

In their search, with the mounted police, for an escaped murderer, Dick and Sandy have thrilling experiences with ice floes and animals in the Arctic.
— from The Boy Scouts Down in Dixie; or, The Strange Secret of Alligator Swamp by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

Before the last notes of that enchanted music died away she had cast her girlish devotion, "half in a rapture and half in a rage," at her partner's feet, while he stood beside her calm and self-possessed.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various