S. Loman accompanied S. Patrick to Ireland, and when they landed at Temora, the great apostle left Loman in charge of the boat, ordering him to bring it up the river Boyne to Trim.
— from The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): February by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

She gave a little laugh: "I can't argue against that, it's too deep for me.
— from Majesty: A Novel by Louis Couperus

his striking expression of the same thought in his Commentary, Super Genesim ad Litteram , lib. ii., cap.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

This is the way every season comes and goes; a little long in coming sometimes; but never long in going; and every year grows shorter as we grow older, and every year goes more quickly as we near the border of old age.
— from Is The Bible Worth Reading, and Other Essays by L. K. (Lemuel Kelley) Washburn

Then the wild and wandering imagination of Thalaba and Kehama; the grave beauty of Madoc; the fine youthful glow of liberty and love in Joan of Arc; and the vivid fire and vigor of Roderick the last of the Goths, are little less in contrast to the jocose productions just mentioned, than they are to the grave judgment displayed in his histories, or the keenness with which he enters, in his Book of the Church, the Colloquies, and his critiques, into the questions and interests of the day, and puts forth all the acumen and often the acidity of the partisan.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 2 (of 2) by William Howitt

When I saw a rude kind of gateway a little later, I could not resist the promptings of my curiosity, and quite forgot the command, which approached just then with beating drums and flying colors.
— from Overland Tales by Josephine Clifford

I've got a love letter in Chinese, and can't read it!
— from Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston by John Ruskin