"Well, if he was fairly fresh Lil Artha might make eight miles, and think little of it," replied the other.
— from Great Hike; or, The Pride of the Khaki Troop by Douglas, Alan, Captain

I started, as all sensitive and pleasure-loving natures do, with an expectation of finding life a much more exciting, amusing, and delightful thing than I have found it.
— from At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson

If you see yourself riding on a donkey, you will visit foreign lands and make many explorations into places difficult of passage.
— from Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream A Scientific and Practical Exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller

"For long ages man, more especially primitive man, has been the sport of the elements; a ball tossed hither and thither, a glove blown here and there by the wind like a reed.
— from The Red Room by August Strindberg

How much of glancing at a thing in one's mind as a beautiful improbability will ever make such a cold fact less astonishing? Miss Mattie eyed him with eyes that saw not; speech was stricken from her.
— from Red Saunders: His Adventures West & East by Henry Wallace Phillips