But before we bid Johnny Whitelamb desist from drawing and build a fire, let us be six princesses here and choose the gifts our mother shall bring home from town."
— from Hetty Wesley by Arthur Quiller-Couch

But the new invention was at first looked upon by some famous scholars and patrons of learning as a detriment rather than a help.
— from Printing and the Renaissance A paper read before the Fortnightly Club of Rochester, New York by John Rothwell Slater

If he were not my father, I should express my feelings more strongly; as it is——" Here Mrs. Anerley appeared, her pretty kindly face lit up by some unusual and pleasurable excitement.
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black

Let us remember the Whispering Gallery of the soul, then, and when we think evil thoughts, even though we never tell them to our nearest friend, let us be sure God knows them.
— from Fifty-Two Story Talks to Boys and Girls by Howard J. (Howard James) Chidley

Let us not only avoid oppression in all its forms; let us be swift to sympathise with all and to succour the oppressed.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

We passed on—and soon the lively sounds of the French language, uttered by soft voices, were heard nearer and nearer, and the next moment, two or three duenna-like old ladies, remarkable for their "embonpoint" dimensions, preceded a bevy of fair girls, without that most hideous of all excrescences, with which women see fit to disfigure their heads, denominated a "bonnet"—their brown, raven or auburn hair floating in ringlets behind them.
— from The South-West, by a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

On a shady part of the platform, in a kind of long box, there was, as the old priest said, a woman whose beautiful, perfectly oval face, lighted up by splendid eyes, denoted no greater age than six-and-twenty.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete by Émile Zola

Thou merry, laughing sprite, With spirits, feather light, Untouched by sorrow, and unsoiled by sin; (My dear, the child is swallowing a pin!)
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

So Libbie took Frances, Betty took Bobby, Constance took Norma on her sled, and Alice steered for Louise, using Bobby's sled.
— from Betty Gordon at Boarding School; Or, The Treasure of Indian Chasm by Alice B. Emerson