Attired in stiff, cold, water-proof clothing, which, culminating in a round oil-cloth cap, makes you look like an Esquimaux and feel like a mummy, you follow the guide far down dark, icy stairs and paths.
— from The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape by Albert D. (Albert Deane) Richardson

"O sir!" said Alcahazar, "may your delicate and far-reaching understanding be written in books, and taught to youth in foreign lands, and may your profound judgment ever overawe your country!
— from Ting-a-ling by Frank Richard Stockton

But the power loosened out through prayer is as tremendous, at the least, to say no more just now, is as tremendous as the power of a true fragrant life and, mark you, and , may touch not one spot but wherever in the whole round world you may choose to turn it.
— from Quiet Talks on Prayer by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

"My father lived a many years agone Lord of this land, master of all cunning, Who ruddy gold could draw from out grey stone, And gather wealth from many an uncouth thing, [Pg 175] He made the wilderness rejoice and sing, And such a leech he was that none could say Without his word what soul should pass away.
— from The Earthly Paradise: A Poem (Part II) by William Morris

"I'm awfully sorry to break your heart, Skim, dear, and ruin your future life, and make you misanthropic and cynical, and spoil your mother's investment and make her mad as a hornet.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Gien ye dee fechtin' like a man, ye'll flee up wi' a quaiet face an' wide open een; an' there's a great Ane 'at 'll say to ye, 'Weel dune, laddie!'
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald

It was from this tunnel that she had watched when Dusty Rhodes went past, a moving fleck of color plumed with dust; and when the sun sank low she had seen the form that followed, like a man yet not like a man.
— from Wunpost by Dane Coolidge