I can’t help thinkin’,” he went on, “how nice it is that Caroline and Steve have such a good friend as you to help ’em.
— from Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Gorizia itself remained in Austrian hands for another year, the heights east of it were not mastered until 1917, and neither Tolmino nor the Carso fell to the Italians until the war had been lost and won.
— from A Short History of the Great War by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

For a year thereafter he engaged in practice at St. François de Sales, but, seeking a more extensive field, he located in Montreal on the 1st of May, 1872, and in this city soon built up a large and lucrative practice.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

[279] "Oh, you need not feel afraid, you that have escaped Indians and crossed the lake in the night.
— from A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda M. Douglas

I forgot my fatigue, and yielded to heartfelt emotion.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

"He struck you in the face; and you," turning his eyes swiftly upon the girl, "saw the blow and were glad."
— from Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent by John Thomas McIntyre

For as yet they had eaten nothing since they came out of the garden; because the food which they had when they were there was heavenly food, and it sustained them through all these many days.
— from Old Testament Legends Being stories out of some of the less-known apocryphal books of the Old Testament by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

Taking a "hint", as he says, from A Yorkshire Tragedy , Hill endeavored to show the "private sorrows" that result from gaming.
— from The Gamester (1753) by Edward Moore