If you want to leave your house to a Free Loan Association, Rudnik, you might just so well blow it up mit dynamite and be done with it.
— from The Competitive Nephew by Montague Glass

It might be possible for him to catch a midnight train for the North from London and reach York before morning.
— from The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

It was a cablegram from London, and read:— “Your letter just received.
— from Mrs. Darrell by Foxcroft Davis

Good many faces looks alike roun' yere."
— from The Harvest of Years by Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell

As told in the first volume of this series, entitled “The Rival Pitchers,” Tom had no sooner reached Randall than he incurred the enmity of Fred Langridge, a rich youth from Chicago, who was manager of the ’varsity ball nine, and also its pitcher.
— from A Quarter-Back's Pluck: A Story of College Football by Lester Chadwick

"Not so, Signor Tenente--not so," returned the vice-governatore; "the lugger that passed this morning, we know to be le Feu-Follet, inasmuch as she took one of our own feluccas, in the course of the night, coming from Livorno and Raoul Yvard permitted her to come in, as he said to her padrone, on account of the civil treatment he had received while lying in our port.
— from The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper

Half a foot long, as reward, your glorious rod (dear poet) Proudly shall strut from your loins, when but your dearest commands, Nor shall your member grow weary until you've enjoyed the full dozen Artful positions the great poet Philainis describes.
— from Erotica Romana by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He revokes the compulsory order for the use of a foreign language, and rehabilitates your council and restores your constitution.
— from The Strange Story of Rab Ráby by Mór Jókai

[ Finds letter and reads ] "You have no idea how different life looks to me now that I live a little for somebody besides myself.
— from Dr. Hardhack's Prescription: A Play for Children in Four Acts by Harriet Beecher Stowe