He knew that she had a liking for walking in the wilderness behind the house; a beech wood which was already beginning to put on its autumn glory.
— from Chippinge Borough by Stanley John Weyman

P.S.—I have a lady friend who is taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription now, and last summer every one thought she was going with consumption; four of her father's family had died with it in five years: she has taken one bottle of "Favorite Prescription," and now she is better in health than she has been in three years.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

The creature hissed and lashed fiercely with its tail, but all in vain, its last hour was come.
— from The French in Algiers The Soldier of the Foreign Legion; and The Prisoners of Abd-el-Kader by Clemens Lamping

They have a little fairy world in their minds, in which they live more, and take greater delight, than they do in what is real and true.
— from How to Be a Man A Book for Boys, Containing Useful Hints on the Formation of Character by Harvey Newcomb