"We'll be getting some food at Killochrie," Elsie said, evasively.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

Large 12mo, decorative cover, fully illustrated $1.50 "Mothers and fathers and kind elder sisters who put the little ones to bed, and rack their brains for stories, will find this book a treasure."— Cleveland Leader.
— from Our Little Dutch Cousin by Blanche McManus

"At fifty a head—and you've got to feed and keep 'em somehow—even three dried prunes cost you something in the long run"—ruminated Baker.
— from The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

If Senores Reade and Hazelton serve us, and then go safely back to the United States, they can swear that they found and knew El Sombrero to be worthless.
— from The Young Engineers in Mexico; Or, Fighting the Mine Swindlers by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

For, as Kant explicitly states, we must not reverse this relation and condemn empirical concepts, as being in the one case too small, and in the other case too large for the Idea.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

As soon as luncheon was finished they rushed for the deck, and you may imagine that chubby little Uncle John, with his rosy, smiling face and kindly eyes, surrounded by three eager and attractive girls of from fifteen to seventeen years of age, was a sight to compel the attention of every passenger aboard the ship.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

This plant, during that clear weather which most flowers affect, keeps entirely shut; but as soon as a thick mist overspreads the earth, or a cloud obscures the bright face of heaven, it begins to open its light blue corolla.
— from Everyday Objects; Or, Picturesque Aspects of Natural History. by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

"Farewell," said the maiden, as with dilating form and kindling eye she gathered up her robes.
— from The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett