He had to stop sometimes and lean agen a gateway to get his breath; but he held out still, till at last we got into Brentwood, and then he says, 'Take me to the nighest surgeon's,' and I waited while he had his arm set in splints, which took a precious long time.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

I talked along, but he only set there and looked at me; never said nothing.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

" Therefore what it signified has stood and shall stand; but it shall not stand for this man, because he himself was not to reign for ever, nor his offspring; so that at least that word "for ever" might seem to be fulfilled through his posterity one to another.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The highest point of Zuñi, now showing five terraces, is said to have had a height of seven terraces as late as the middle of the present century, but at the time of the survey of the village no traces were seen of such additional stories.
— from A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Victor Mindeleff

There is seldom throbbing, or heat, or swelling; though, after long continuance of the diseased state, these may supervene to a slight extent.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

Only he fulfills it not by obedience in his own strength to a law which is outside of him, but by yielding to a power which God has placed in his heart.
— from A Brief Bible History: A Survey of the Old and New Testaments by James Oscar Boyd

Rather, I should think so.'" II "Well, we staggered along into the house, old Sabre talking away like a soda-water bottle just uncorked, and he took me into a room on the ground floor where they'd put up a bed for him, him not being able to do the stairs, of course.
— from If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

Rude as it may be in execution, it breathes the very spirit of devotion; and I have often stood through a long service of two or three hours, for the sake of hearing a few chanted psalms and prayers.
— from Tent Life in Siberia A New Account of an Old Undertaking; Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes In Kamchatka and Northern Asia by George Kennan

I have heard of similar transactions at least a dozen times.
— from Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Where misprinted and missing words had obvious substitutions, they are listed below.
— from Spinster of This Parish by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

We want a strong, kind hand to hold us up, and to hold us always; a hand that will hold ours so tightly and lovingly, that it will be as the old Scotchwoman said, "Not my grip of Christ, but Christ's grip of me!"
— from Morning Bells; Or, Waking Thoughts for Little Ones by Frances Ridley Havergal

“I’ve heard of such things as lockjaw,” said [Pg 208] Jesse.
— from The Young Alaskans by Emerson Hough