Reuben remembered how the little banner had fluttered on that topmost bough, when it was green and lovely, eighteen years before.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Presently Madame herself entered, clad in a plain morning gown, and looking even younger in the spring sunlight than she had done in the ballroom.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

I delight in a love affair, especially one that's got a little entangled, you know."
— from By Berwen Banks by Allen Raine

If you live in the country, or if your grounds are large enough, you can add immensely to your profits by keeping a cow, a pig, some poultry, and a few hives of bees.
— from One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

A plant would be killed to the ground at least every year unless under glass or other protection.
— from One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson

That the cool house is an improvement over the warm house is generally conceded, but there are many poultrymen who are still of the opinion that the warm house will give a larger egg yield, though at a greater expense and less profit.
— from The Dollar Hen by Milo Hastings

“We may get a little exploring yet, before we get back to Portland.
— from Boy Scouts at Crater Lake A Story of Crater Lake National Park and the High Cascades by Walter Prichard Eaton

His face was round, flat, pale, with small features; mouth beautifully shaped; hair, bright-brown and wavy; and such a pair of eyes as are rarely seen in the human or any other head,—intensely blue, with a gentle and lambent expression, yet wonderfully alert and engrossing: nothing appeared to escape his knowledge.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

No, but you women have such strange ideas, that you think all is well so long as your married life runs smooth; but if some mischance occur to ruffle your love, all that was good and lovely erst you reckon as your foes.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

You will have to grow a little ere you can hope to pit yourself against me."
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann