A few minutes passed, when a long train of office bearers and the magistrates of the town, headed by the mayor, came in procession and entered the mansion house also; a gentleman at my elbow rose and bowed to these
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1 (of 2) by John James Audubon

We looked at the temple of the old goddess that cured coughs, now a Christian church, dedicated to la Madonna della Tosse ; it is exactly all it ever was, I believe; and we dined in the temple of Sibylla Tiburtina, a beautiful Page 397 edifice, of which Mr. Jenkins has sent the model to London in cork, which gives a more exact representation after all than the best-chosen words in the world.
— from Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Hester Lynch Piozzi

"It is a good place to get a military education," replied Addison.
— from When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens

"If you will go and make everything ready and come up again, you might carry Baby down," she whispered.
— from Capricious Caroline by Effie Adelaide Rowlands

He has attended the Lewiston livestock show and sale with a carload of cattle for the past three years and has gained a most enviable reputation as a breeder.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

The constructive soliloquy is as undesirable as the aside, because it forces the actor out of the stage picture in exactly the same way; but a good actor may easily read a reflective soliloquy without seeming in the least unnatural.
— from The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism by Clayton Meeker Hamilton