I found my first Ragged School, in an obscure place called West-street, Saffron-hill, pitifully struggling for life, under every disadvantage.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV by Various

But if we are to have our noses rubbed together in this course of flight, let us each dare to be ourselves like savages, and each swear that he will neither resent nor deprecate the other.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 12 by Robert Louis Stevenson

The flickering light of the flames, rekindled by him, alien successor as he was of those ancient folk, lit up every detail of the surface.
— from Lone Pine: The Story of a Lost Mine by R. B. (Richard Baxter) Townshend

"The Ireland that Martin and I knew when we were children," writes Miss Somerville, "is fast leaving us; every day some landmark is wiped out."
— from Irish Books and Irish People by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

Let us blot it out, all this strange performance in France: let us eat, drink and be merry.
— from No Man's Land by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile