It gave my mind something else to feed upon than contemplation of my own unhappiness.
— from The Motor Pirate by G. Sidney Paternoster

I don't mean to say that I can not tell a great many more stories, equally authentic and marvelous, touching this old town; but as I may possibly have to perform a like office for other localities, and as Anthony Poplar is known, like Atropos, to carry a shears, wherewith to snip across all "yarns" which exceed reasonable bounds, I consider it, on the whole, safer to dispatch the traditions of Chapelizod with one tale more.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. II, No. X., March 1851 by Various

Mrs. Arnold gave me my supper even though it was late, and the next day I saw the registrar in earnest.
— from Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College by Josephine Chase

In addition to these interchanges of civility, a melancholy occasion had presented itself for giving much more substantial evidence of the alacrity with which the American administration would embrace any proper opportunity of manifesting its disposition to promote the interests of France.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

Envious wits what hath beene mine offence, That with such poisoned eare my wits you marke, That to each word, nay sigh of mine you harke, As grudging me my sorrows eloquence?
— from Sir P.S.: His Astrophel and Stella Wherein the excellence of sweete poesie is concluded by Philip Sidney