For a minute Mr. Fletcher forgot himself, and felt as he remembered feeling long ago, when, a warm-hearted boy, he had comforted his little sister for a lost kitten or a broken doll.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

,” said Mas’r George, when the activity of the griddle department had somewhat subsided; and, with that, the youngster flourished a large knife over the article in question.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Thus far I have been speaking of the fourth and last kind of madness, which is imputed to him who, when he sees the beauty of earth, is transported with the recollection of the true beauty; he would like to fly away, but he cannot; he is like a bird fluttering and looking upward and careless of the world below; and he is therefore thought to be mad.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

As it is evident that, during the reign of Henry IV., Lancaster King of Arms has under that title the province of the north, Mr. Edmondson , with good reason, supposes that the southern province, or part of that which is now under Clarenceux, might at that time be under this Leicester , especially as the title of Clarenceux was not in being till after the 3rd of Henry V., when, or soon after, the title of Leicester might have become extinct by the death of that officer; for although Leicester King of Arms went over into France with Henry V. in the third year of his reign, yet he is not mentioned in the constitutions made by the heralds at Roan in the year 1419-20.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The Cunjee district was a friendly one; station owners and farmers alike looked kindly on the young immigrant who turned so readily to work after four years' fighting.
— from Back to Billabong by Mary Grant Bruce

Sections of fossil trees are also seen, and the whole thing is fascinating, one's great wish being for a larger knowledge of geology so as to read aright this strange page of history in stone.
— from The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron

He didn't answer for a little, kind of hesitated, then he said it was about the same day—he couldn't be sure; and that was all they could get out of him—it was about the same day.
— from The House by the River by A. P. (Alan Patrick) Herbert

Here, of course, are to be found the traditional groups in evidence at every station; a handful of people in deep mourning on their way to a funeral; a little knot of Sisters of Charity, huddled together in an obscure corner reciting their rosary; families of refugees whom the tempest has driven from their homes—whole tribes dragging with them their old people and their children who moan and weep incessantly.
— from With Those Who Wait by Frances Wilson Huard

Mine was feelin' a little kind o' sore this mornin', but it's all right jest now.
— from The Lost Gold of the Montezumas: A Story of the Alamo by William O. Stoddard

"You argue only from a limited knowledge of the world.
— from Swirling Waters by Max Rittenberg

The finer and larger kinds of fruit should not be allowed to touch each other, but should be kept separate.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Don't, you're hurting me!—He's too red in the face, and looks kind of—insulting—and he wears the most beautiful neckties, and— Exhausted by her efforts at description.
— from The Faith Healer: A Play in Three Acts by William Vaughn Moody