The question now was how to get down the trees, or how to get his dogs down?
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Charles J. Bonaparte William D. Boyce H. S. Braucher Roeliff Brinkerhoff Dr. Elmer E. Brown Luther Burbank Dr. Richard C. Cabot Rev. S. Parkes Cadman Arthur A. Carey E. C. Carter Richard B. Carter W. D. Champlin Thomas Chew Winston Churchill G. A. Clark P. P. Claxton Randall J. Condon C. M. Connolly Ernest K. Coulter Dr. C. Ward Crampton George H. Dalrymple Dr. George S. Davis E. B. DeGroot Judge William H. De Lacy William C. Demorest Dr. Edward T. Devine Admiral George Dewey Gov. John A. Diz Myron E. Douglas Benjamin L. Dulaney Hon.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

adies are generally described as GUSHING , and of late years the word GUSH has done duty as representing the newspaper work necessary for a continuance of the “largest circulation.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

And when I've got him down, don't I clap the seal on the vase, and take good care how I open it again, and how I go against Solomon, wisest of men, who confined him there.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

[FR] Barbara Grimes (Hawaii) #Directrice de publication de l'Ethnologue, une encyclopédie des langues Cette encyclopédie très documentée, qui en est à sa 14e édition, existe en version web, sur CD-Rom et en version imprimée.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

He buys land; he gives his daughters diamonds; he founds almshouses——' 'If he believes all that, he is surely happy,' I said.
— from The Orange Girl by Walter Besant

In the first Act, there was providing of household furniture for the coming existence; in the second, the arrival ; in the third, talking ; in the fourth, learning to walk , &c. When Germany had delivered discourses enough to Italy, and Italy to Germany, then Germany, or rather Flachsenfingen, or properly a piece of it, the Minister Schleunes, took the Princess by the hand and led her out of the torrid zone into the frigid; I mean, not from the bridal bed to the wedded bed, but–from the Italian territory of the apartment into the Flachsenfingenite, away over the silken Rubicon.
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I. by Jean Paul

The restoration which Mr. Gleeson has drawn differs radically from any yet made, and is the result of a careful study of the specimen belonging to the United States National Museum.
— from Animals of the Past by Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus) Lucas

We see the belief of the Gospel has dwindled down to atheistic Monism.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

But Henry Wynd wore his own good hauberk, doubly defended with a lining of tempered steel.
— from The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day by Walter Scott

The Mu'tazilites had advocated man's free will; had given prominence to justice and holiness in their conception of God, had denied distinct qualities in God and the eternity of God's Word; had accepted a place for the neutral between Paradise and Hell; and for some time the favour of the powers in authority seemed to assure the victory of their system.
— from Mohammedanism Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth, and Its Present State by C. (Christiaan) Snouck Hurgronje

“I’ll go higher,” Don determined.
— from The Ghost of Mystery Airport by Van Powell

The guests had departed; Diana was entering her own apartments, while from the landing Lady Elizabeth could see Jim below her as he started for the garden.
— from The Squaw Man: A Novel by Julie Opp