I assure you I have no more claim on them than your butler, and when Miss Virginia grows up, I dare say she will be pleased to have pretty things to wear.
— from The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

“Where Steelkilt now is, gentlemen, none know; but upon the island of Nantucket, the widow of Radney still turns to the sea which refuses to give up its dead; still in dreams sees the awful white whale that destroyed him.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The hills fairly echoed and re-echoed with the name, but no answer came, and finally I gave up in disgust, seeking meanwhile the very inadequate shelter of a tree, to keep the rain off.
— from Olympian Nights by John Kendrick Bangs

At four o'clock on Friday morning, April 13, the Russians opened a destructive fire on our six-gun battery, which was in a very imperfect state, and by concentrating the fire of twenty guns upon it, dismounted some of the pieces and injured the works severely, so as to render the battery useless.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

When the storm had spent its fury, And the sea gave up its dead She was mourning for her loved ones, Lost amid that night of dread.
— from Poems by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

And the yard without she also knew well: the friendly big elm which, whenever the wind blew, tapped soft leafy fingers against her own window; the slick green curves of the lawn; the trees best loved by the birds; the morning-glories on the porch which resembled fairy church bells ready for ringing, the mignonette in the flower-beds like fragrant fairy plumes, and the other flowers—all so clever at growing up into different shapes and colours when you considered they all came from little hard brown seeds.
— from Missy by Dana Gatlin

"But I can't go until I do something for you-those are my orders," said Umberufen sulkily.
— from Billy Bounce by W. W. (William Wallace) Denslow

When you grow up I dare say you will be one of the great-deal seers and see things more wonderful than Water Babies where other folks can see nothing.
— from Thomas Henry Huxley: A Character Sketch by Leonard Huxley

"Now look at the mess you've got us into, Dutton," said Stiver.
— from Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days; Or, The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son by Howard Roger Garis

Finally, giving up in despair, ses he, 'Wal, one thing I can do enyhow, I can make a siss !'
— from Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Seba Smith

They gave up in despair, saying: “What more can we do?
— from Zuñi Folk Tales by Frank Hamilton Cushing