“(Signed), F.” “F.” I recognized easily enough as the initial letter of Monsieur Foulon’s name, the second of Mr. Monkton, who had died of consumption at Paris.
— from The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins

She had not met it before and found it rather embarrassing, especially as it kept on and on.
— from Shavings: A Novel by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

“If that be the case,” said Norman of Torn, “we shall have war and fighting in real earnest ere many months.”
— from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs

This fabricke is ready end easie, as is to be seene in this example following.
— from The Way To Geometry by Petrus Ramus

To dwell on their peculiarities would, however, as it appears to us, be useless: the first is rarely exhibited, even on the stage: the second, although it still retains much of its original character, has, in this country, been modified into the Waltz Country Dance, and all the objections which it encountered, on its first introduction, seem to have been gradually overcome, since it assumed its present popular form; and the graceful Bolero is restricted to the theatre only, being never introduced to the English ball-room.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829 by Various

Had he been as firm in resisting every enticement of the whites, he would have maintained a greater consistency, and himself attained a higher degree of excellence.
— from An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 by John Niles Hubbard

A mile and a half beyond the palaces of the exposition lies Bella Vista, beautiful for situation and rivaling Southern California for its real estate enterprise.
— from Prowling about Panama by George A. (George Amos) Miller

From 1826, the year of Constable's failure, to 1831, this man of iron will produced no less than forty[ 1 ] volumes, besides fifteen important reviews, essays, etc., and in addition supervised the publication of his complete prose writings and the Waverley Novels, preparing for the latter a series of exhaustive introductions and notes.
— from The Country of Sir Walter Scott by Charles S. (Charles Sumner) Olcott

At first I rather encouraged Evie to talk about him; but, after a while, I discovered that I was ministering to the feeling which I thought had been destroyed.
— from The Motor Pirate by G. Sidney Paternoster