It is true he was guilty of some slight impostures, but unless he was a great Wizard how—let me ask—could he have hidden this girl Ozma so securely that no one can find her?"
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

"Go on, sir," said I; "but please don't be in too much haste.
— from Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives by George S. McWatters

As he heaved it aloft, the gray old shepherd seemed inspired by the god of battles; the rage of a hundred ancestors was welling up in his peaceful breast.
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

In Virginia there comes often at this season a deceptive gleam of summer, slipping in between heavy storm-clouds of sleet and snow; days and sometimes weeks when the temperature is like June; when the earliest plants begin to show their hardy flowers, and when the bare branches of the forest trees alone protest against the conduct of the seasons.
— from Democracy, an American novel by Henry Adams

But the small loblolly pine, grown on sandy soil, is but third-grade lumber, the sap-wood three times as thick as the heart-wood and exceedingly coarse-grained.
— from Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers

Pelicans nest in colonies, generally on some small island, building their nests on the ground or in bushes, and laying two or three large, white, chalky eggs.
— from Color Key to North American Birds with bibliographical appendix by Frank M. (Frank Michler) Chapman

When he had gone out she shut it behind him, and he heard the click of a bolt being pushed home.
— from December Love by Robert Hichens

The groups of statuary stood in bold relief, here against the warm blue sky or silver cloud, there against a bank of stately trees, rich in luxuriant foliage.
— from The Broken Thread by William Le Queux

As Burdette says: "Often a working guild of some sort is brought into existence for a specific but transient purpose; the object accomplished, the work completed, the society disbands, or merges into some other organization, or reorganizes under a new name for some new work.
— from Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in America The Work and the Man by Agnes Rush Burr