He died at Gawler, in South Australia, in December, 1874.
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc

"I grant it, sir, and I do not mean to say but that I should receive much pleasure from a continental tour; perhaps I may add that I should derive more profit if I were to delay it till I am a little older and a little wiser; do you not think so?"
— from The Mission by Frederick Marryat

HOW SPRING COMES TO SHASTA JIM I never seen no “red gods”; I dunno wot's a “lure”; But if it's sumpin' takin', then Spring has got it sure; An' it doesn't need no Kiplins, ner yet no London Jacks, To make up guff about it, w'ile settin' in their shacks.
— from The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Henry Van Dyke

she asked, startled at his earnestness: “I do not know you; go, oh, go; I say again, I do not know you, sir.”
— from The Advocate: A Novel by Charles Heavysege

Generally, it seemed as if, during long years, mutual sympathy and understanding had bound them together by indissoluble ties, though at other times they appeared to have nothing in common and to avoid each other, he with frigid hauteur, she with scorn in her squinting sidelong glances.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

No! it has come right again; and now Tamaque has got in safely, and is dragging his companion after him.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850 by Various

"If it was a ghost," interjected Sinclair, "and I don't say as it was; but if it was, why, it could take on any form it wanted to.
— from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Eyes are well developed, giving images sometimes accurate in detail, sometimes very rude.
— from The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

To the eyes of the girls it seemed as if destruction were inevitable.
— from The Eagle Cliff by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne