"I should think so, if several hundred girls will go on repeating exactly the same texts year in and year out."
— from The Open Question: A Tale of Two Temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

Then something like a gasp of relief escaped the spectators.
— from Harley Greenoak's Charge by Bertram Mitford

“We’ve got on right enough together since we have been staying at your house.”
— from Real Gold: A Story of Adventure by George Manville Fenn

Could he but touch something substantial, he told himself, it would help him to keep a grip on reality; even to see and feel one of the winged horrors would be in a way a relief.
— from The Finding of Haldgren by Charles Willard Diffin

The pipe is generally of red earth, the stem made of ash, about three or four feet long, and highly decorated with feathers, hair, and porcupine-quills. . .
— from First Across the Continent The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks

I must make children my companions, here, for my older friends were so oppressed by the gloom of race extinction that save for Malicious Gossip and one or two others, there was no capacity for joyousness left in them.
— from White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien