she cried, "it can't be that anything's happened to him?" "Don't get excited, Ruth," said her father soothingly.
— from Doubloons—and the Girl by John Maxwell Forbes

“I dare swear they will get way ahead of my grubbing,” Ellery rejoined, slamming his desk.
— from Jewel Weed by Alice Ames Winter

She whistled a fair imitation of the flute; she had a "good ear"; Rose said her "ear" was too good, and that this explained her impatience of systematic musical instruction.
— from Otherwise Phyllis by Meredith Nicholson

"Gentlemen!" exclaimed Ralph, stretching his slim six feet two: We were sitting in the Boyne Club.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

"Good God!" exclaimed Rudolph, "she has destroyed herself.
— from The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage

So Father Hugh absolved him before he died, and went hither and thither through the great empty rooms shaking his holy water, and reading from his Latin book.
— from An Isle in the Water by Katharine Tynan

Gassendi, as we saw, had notably discredited witchcraft a generation earlier; Reginald Scot had impugned its actuality in 1584; and Wier, still earlier, in 1563 .
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

This great experiment, regarded so hazardous at that time, sent the honest and peace-loving Dutchmen along the banks of the river into such a state of alarm that they called meetings, and in the most solemn manner declared that no man's life would be safe while sailing at such a dangerous rate of speed.
— from The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

“But he didn’t find that bag, nor his guides either,” remarked Step Hen, with a little show of pride; as though he believed he ought to at least have a small amount of credit for bringing the thing to light.
— from The Boy Scouts on the Trail; or, Scouting through the Big Game Country by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917