These two suits of flannel, each in one piece from head to foot, with a skirt or so hung on this easily-fitting waist, will keep the child warm without burdening her with belts, and gathers, and buckles, and bunches round the waist, and leave free the muscles that need plenty of room to work in.
— from Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

In the eleventh century there was anarchy, produced by the African guard of the caliphs, which played a part like that of the Turkish guard at Bagdad , and by reason of the rebellion of the governors.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

Another large room was too rigid in its aspect to have been anything but a spare room or a death chamber, and Mr. Aytoun's own room, where he had died like a gentleman and become a "beautiful remains," was on the [50] ground floor.
— from Hildegarde's Home by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

These two suits of flannel, each in one piece from head to foot, with a skirt or so hung on this easily fitting waist, will keep the child warm without burdening her with belts, and gathers, and buckles, and bunches round the waist, and leave free the muscles that need plenty of room to work in.
— from Eight Cousins; Or, The Aunt-Hill by Louisa May Alcott

I'se done been to Fort Glass and brung a big rescue party, and de white folks dey said, long as Joe brung us he's 'titled to tell de good news fust, an' dat's how I'm here while de rest is outside de drif'."
— from The Big Brother: A Story of Indian War by George Cary Eggleston