Older, a trifle heavier and more matured, I thought, than when I last saw him, but in all else the same old Nicholas.
— from The Red Fox's Son: A Romance of Bharbazonia by Edgar M. (Edgar Meck) Dilley

She longed to communicate the thrilling news to Lilias, but the music was still going on, and her arms must move in time to it.
— from The Princess of the School by Angela Brazil

You've been having a much more interesting time than I have, so you've got to tell.
— from First Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

To some thinkers, and some schools of thinkers, both in ancient and in modern times, this last has appeared much more inconceivable than the former.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill

[20] Further, these small batteries are both handier and more mobile in themselves; they are, therefore, better suited to Cavalry requirements, and at the same time the power of concentration when such is required is fully retained.
— from Cavalry in Future Wars by Friedrich von Bernhardi

When it was announced through the medium of the press at what time he would reach a given point, the inhabitants flocked to the landing-place [483] to do him honor; and many, more impatient than the rest, would put out in canoes and skiffs to meet him on the way.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

Pg 197] vised biography for me a few hundred years hence, I shall have a much more interesting tale to tell, for many of our doings, of which man knows nothing at present, will be secrets no longer by that time.
— from The Autobiography of an Electron Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion by Charles R. (Charles Robert) Gibson

I have counted more than thirty feeding at once in the lower half of the parade ground, and at nightfall have seen forty at roost in one tree, with half as many more in the tree adjoining.
— from Birds in the Bush by Bradford Torrey