In our mother's house of life, each child had its special room, though no door was locked to any.
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

—Barnes's Hero of Lake Erie (Commodore Perry); Seawell's Midshipman Paulding (Commodore Paulding); Seawell's Little Jarvis (cruises of the Constellation); Seawell's Decatur and Somers ; George Cary Eggleston's three stories: Signal Boys , Captain Sam , and Big Brother .
— from The Story of American History for Elementary Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

Then he caught hold of Lord Edmund, crying out, “Thy father slew mine, and so do I thee,” and dashed out his brains with his mace.
— from Grisly Grisell; Or, The Laidly Lady of Whitburn: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

John Gilpin’s ride to Edmonton, Mrs. Gilpin’s return from Edmonton, Cinderella, or the little Glass Slipper, The little Poulterer, The little Farmer, The World turn’d Upside Down, History of Little Fanny, The History of Little Eliza, &c. &c.
— from Peter Prim's Profitable Present To the little misses and masters of the United States by Unknown

Caminando, quemaron vn lugar, y en otro que a cometieron, les mataron ciertos Españoles, y hirieron cinquenta cauallos, y metieron dentro los vezinos a Francisco de Onãdo, herido, o muerto, para comer, y sacrificar, a lo que pensaron, o quiça para mejor ver, que hombres oran los Españoles, ca no se hallo por alli rastro de sacrificio humano.
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

He does not exclude from the Church of Christ (say they) those whom we do not accept into the communion of our particular Society, any more than the House of Lords excludes Commoners from being Members of Parliament.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The priests had of late erected close to the church a small building which they intended should serve as an inquisitorial prison where they might keep in confinement any heretics on whom they were desirous of expending their religious zeal.
— from Villegagnon: A Tale of the Huguenot Persecution by William Henry Giles Kingston

The whole place glittered with hundreds of lights, each caught and reflected in the tall mirrors, the glassware and the polished wood.
— from Peggy Finds the Theatre by Virginia Hughes

But since fortune—as many philosophers have taught us—refuses her aid to the old, in spite of his skill the General had of late experienced certain repulses which he could not ascribe to any defect of foresight or courage, but only to the vagaries of fate.
— from Froth: A Novel by Armando Palacio Valdés