“What are they?” “Hum—look like H. E. G.” “Horace E. Gladdus,” said Sid.
— from The Rival Pitchers: A Story of College Baseball by Lester Chadwick

Now to these prophets I paid no heed, believing not that Providence would freeze us for other people's sins; neither seeing how England could for many generations have enjoyed good sunshine, if Popery meant frost and fogs.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Meanwhile the aspirations of Greece had excited great sympathy throughout Europe; a Greek Committee was formed in London; the Philhellenes became very powerful in most countries on the continent, as well as in America, and many volunteers, of whom Lord Byron was a notable example, enlisted in the cause of Greek liberty.
— from Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Biddulph, Elizabeth Philippa, Baroness

For accomplishing its work the Junta has in no way been restricted in authority, the Cuban government having even granted special authority allowing Mr. Palma to issue a limited amount of bonds, coin money, and grant letters of marque.
— from Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White

In Jamaica the governor had even gone so far as to authorize formally a free trade, during pleasure, with the United States, contrary to the explicit orders of his superiors in Great Britain.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

we have the traditional explanation of the word, an explanation which is not altogether satisfactory from a grammatical point of view; the great Hebraist Ewald goes so far as to pronounce it highly artificial.
— from The Evolution of Old Testament Religion by W. E. (William Edwin) Orchard

"I fear she is either dead or in the hands of those murderous redskins," he groaned, his eyes growing suspiciously moist.
— from Marching on Niagara; Or, The Soldier Boys of the Old Frontier by Edward Stratemeyer

The palace of Frau Hütt was shattered into one vast ruin, and then enormous mountains of rock [199] and thundering avalanches began to fall, and in the space of a few hours all the paradisiacal Alp-land, which formed the empire of Frau Hütt was destroyed, the forests were swept away, the beautiful fields and uplands were covered with rocks and stones, and round about nothing was to be seen but a large desert, upon which not even one little piece of grass has ever grown since.
— from Tales and Legends of the Tyrol by Günther, Marie A., countess

“By George,” he exclaimed, grasping Scott’s hand, “I’m glad to see you.
— from Scott Burton on the Range by Edward G. (Edward Gheen) Cheyney