Then I get up reluctantly, like some sleepy animal, and go and eat them and come out again.
— from In the Mountains by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Capitals have been letterspaced a trifle Since the typewriter is in such general use, ruled letter sheets are seldom called for; in fact, ruled correspondence sheets of any kind are now in poor taste.
— from The Art & Practice of Typography A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement by Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger) Gress

—Fully 6 feet high; growth upright; rootstock less spreading than the last two; leaves on very short stalks, broadest at the base, ovate tapering by a long narrow point; flower disk narrow, but rays large and orange-yellow; flowers showy, 3 inches across; they come out late in August.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 by Various

"The force under Sham Singh is to be 4,000 horse, and two brigades of infantry, with guns; under Raja Lal Singh, 4,500 horse, and two infantry brigades; under Sirdar Tej Singh, four brigades of infantry (one of them irregulars, and one new levies) and 1,000 horse, &c; but till the plans of the Durbar are in actual execution, they cannot be considered fixed, and therefore I do not trouble our Excellency with further details.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various

He went to sleep at last, and getting up rather late, spent an hour or two trying to knit up broken clews and looking for a light.
— from Carmen's Messenger by Harold Bindloss