But the baggage trains stretched out so that the last of Beauharnais’ train had not yet got out of Moscow and reached the Kalúga road when the vanguard of Ney’s army was already emerging from the Great Ordýnka Street.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Only those who have seen this grand [Pg 145] country of ours can justly appreciate the grandeur of our mountains and rivers, valley and plain, canyon and gorge, lakes and springs, cities and towns, the grand evidences of God's handiwork scattered all over this fair land over which waves the stars and stripes.
— from The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick" by Nat Love

You can hear of me at any time either here or at the Grand Hotel, Paris, but there’s nothing further to be got out of me as regards Mr. Hamilton Fynes.”
— from The Illustrious Prince by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

It alone of all the glories of once magnificent Akragas remains in its original shape.
— from Seekers in Sicily: Being a Quest for Persephone by Jane and Peripatetica by Anne Hoyt

'But don't get off on my account,' replied Sponge.
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

If we have fondly hoped to witness, in the future, the triumph of the humaner living, it must be allowed that the actual rate of progress is extremely disheartening; but if, on the contrary, we work under a rational understanding that a widespread change of diet, like any other radical change, is a matter not of years but of centuries, then we shall not find in the slow growth of our movement any reason for dissatisfaction.
— from The Logic of Vegetarianism: Essays and Dialogues by Henry S. Salt

The sunbeams of heaven can shine from above, And glow on our midnight a rainbow of love.
— from Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline, with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by Reynolds, John, of Vermont

But it would be a good plan if you did go away awhile; you would get out of many a rut.
— from Edelweiss: A Story by Berthold Auerbach

“Your good opinion of me,” answered Richling.
— from Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable

In March, 1822, he voted in the Senate, with Harrison Gray Otis of Massachusetts and Rufus King, for a proviso in the bill creating the new Territory of Florida by which the introduction of slaves was forbidden except by citizens removing there for actual settlement, and by which slaves introduced [Pg 94] in violation of the law were to be freed.
— from Martin Van Buren by Edward Morse Shepard

Freckles he hit him in the ribs with a lump of soft coal, and he got off of me and run away before I got my second wind.
— from The Revolt of the Oyster by Don Marquis