,” said Mr. Percy, “since you desire to follow us into banishment , as you call it, you shall; and as long as we have any thing upon earth, you shall never want.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Patronage [part 1] by Maria Edgeworth

There was little to be expected from an intercession on the part of one claiming so little ascendancy over his father's heart, as the universally esteemed young officer; still less from one who, in her shriek of agony, had exposed the haughty chief to the observation both of men and officers, and under circumstances that caused his position to border on the ludicrous.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3 by Major (John) Richardson

My mother saw its pale yellow stars shining in the early evening in a cottage garden on Cape Ann, and was there given, out of the darkness, by a fellow flower lover, the seeds which have afforded to us every year since so much sentiment and pleasure.
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle