Chapter 10 There was no way of getting into or out of the top garden at San Salvatore except through the two glass doors, unfortunately side by side, of the dining-room and the hall.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

"Oh, Miss Mercer, I think you and the Camp Fire Girls are splendid!" said Emily Turner, the big girl who had been the ringleader of the tricks with the motor boat.
— from The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains; Or, Bessie King's Strange Adventure by Jane L. Stewart

This is so thick as to prevent the fish from passing, and even in some parts with the help of a little gravel and some stone enables them to give any direction which they wish to the water.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

We face other important domestic needs: to continue responsibility for the disadvantaged; to provide the capital needed by our cities and our transportation systems; to protect our environment; to revitalize American industry; and to increase the export of American goods and services so essential to the creation of jobs and a trade surplus.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Jimmy Carter

He gave a slight sardonic emphasis to the last word.
— from We're Friends, Now by Henry Hasse

Presently the squire gave a stroke so effective that the blood spouted and the knight, reeling, let fall his weapon.
— from The Fortunes of Garin by Mary Johnston