"The labor situation reaches a crisis to-day in conferences between the government and three great unions, representing nearly 1,500,000 workers, the result of whose demands is awaited with keen interest by the entire labor world.
— from The New Christianity; or, The Religion of the New Age by Salem Goldworth Bland

She's given up rubbing noses since she came to England."
— from The Girls of St. Cyprian's: A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil

p. 28 ); Nothocrax (1 sp.), Guiana, Upper Rio Negro, and Upper Amazon; Pauxi (1 sp.), Guiana to Venezuela; Mitua (2 sp.), Guiana and Upper Amazon.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

“If being cross and hungry are encouraging symptoms,” he said somewhat grimly, “I think I ought to get up right now.
— from Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison

“I cannot imagine how any German girl grows up really nice.”
— from Dumps - A Plain Girl by L. T. Meade

I swear by the blessed saints in heaven, it's throwing our lives away to go up river now; and all I've got to say for Bull is, God help him!"
— from The Great Quest A romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea by Charles Boardman Hawes

Getting up, Ross noticed a winged shape sweeping across the disk of the moon like a silent dart.
— from The Time Traders by Andre Norton

When Patience and Clarissa had got to their own room on the night on which they had walked back from Mrs. Brownlow's house to Popham Villa,—during all which long walk Clarissa's hand had lain gently upon Ralph Newton's arm,—the elder sister looked painfully and anxiously into the younger's face, in order that, if it were possible, she might learn without direct enquiry what had been said during that hour of close communion.
— from Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope

She gave up reading novels, gave up doing crochet, gave up washing and combing her dog and teasing it—in a word, she threw aside all her usual occupations and—sulked.
— from Mimi's Marriage by Lidiia Ivanovna Veselitskaia