“Good evening, Rachel,” Marilla said briskly.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Surely no missionaries, with so few pretensions to the love and confidence of the church of God, ever received more solid proofs of deep and hearty interest than we have during these ten months; this is no small point gained, and I think we may go further, and add, that many have been led by this weak effort of faith in us, to take steps they might not otherwise have ventured upon.
— from Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 by Anthony Norris Groves

III This has been, and still to a very great extent remains, most specifically true of philosophy.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

“And, oh, say!” gasped Emma, “remember Moe Selig, of the Fine-Form Skirt Company, trying to get the doctors to state that hobble skirts were making women knock-kneed!
— from Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney by Edna Ferber

See there the four Elements redoubled, as Hermes cals them, and Raymund Lullius the great Elements; for as every Element consists of two qualities, these great Elements redoubled, Mercury , Sulphur , Salt , and Glasse , participate of the two simple Elements, (to say better) of all four; according to the more, or the lesse, of the one, or of the other; Mercury holding more of the Aire , to which it is attributed; Oyle or Sulphur , of the Aire; Salt , of Fire; and Glasse , of the Earth, who findes it selfe pure and cleane in the Center of all the composed Elementaries, and is the last to reveale it selfe exempt from others.
— from A Discovrse of Fire and Salt Discovering Many Secret Mysteries as well Philosophicall, as Theologicall by Blaise de Vigenère

His general effect reminds me somehow of the Knights Templars.
— from A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

They enter this wood and penetrate it for a considerable distance, the ground ever rising more steeply and becoming looser and more difficult as they go.
— from Harry Escombe: A Tale of Adventure in Peru by Harry Collingwood

It is not good enough, Ridge men say.
— from The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard