It is no overt dispraise to say of Miss Kate Greenaway that few artists made so great a reputation in so small a field.
— from Children's Books and Their Illustrators by Gleeson White

Our plan will require the induction of facts , as the necessary basis of argument or illustration; and these refer to the state of women, in countries and during periods in which the religion of the Bible was wholly unknown, as in the nations of Pagan antiquity, in Greece and Rome; in savage, superstitious, and Mahometan regions; and their condition previously to the establishment of Christianity, in patriarchal time and places, or during the Jewish theocracy.
— from Female Scripture Biography, Volume II Including an Essay on What Christianity Has Done for Women by F. A. (Francis Augustus) Cox

“To say the truth to you, Major Duncan, this girl is making as much havoc in the garrison as the French did before Ty: I never witnessed so general a rout in so short a time!”
— from The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

As one of the few clean persons I met in Cuba, and the only contented one, I hope the cable operator at Jucaro will get a rise in salary soon, and some day see more of foreign parts than he is seeing at present, and at last get back to "the Horse Shoe, at the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford street, sir," where, as we agreed, better entertainment is to be had on Saturday night than anywhere in London.
— from Cuba in War Time by Richard Harding Davis

Outside, the great glowing magnetic field of female attraction pulsed and glowed and reached its strange streamers across the sky.
— from Daughter of the Night by Richard S. Shaver

She looked up in surprise, for Mrs. Treacher could scarcely have gone and returned in so short a while.
— from Major Vigoureux by Arthur Quiller-Couch