"Taylor had better take her up to the Elizabeth room, or your room if you don't mind."
— from Sally Bishop: A Romance by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston

“I can go wherever you can, you foolish Juno,” she cried, giving herself up to the exhilarating ride.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter

His unwillingness to take exercise resulted in a serious illness.
— from Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Helen Leah Reed

Curiously enough, the wagon was owned by that noble Baptist pioneer of the New York North Woods, Elder—not Reverend but revered— John Blodgett , and in it he used to traverse "East road," and "West road," and "Number Three road," and go to Denmark and Copenhagen and Leyden and Turin, and other places in foreign parts, without shipping a sea, or, to borrow a morsel of thunder, without "seeing a ship."
— from The World on Wheels, and Other Sketches by Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) Taylor

A pretty, slender woman, who had up to then escaped Romashov’s notice, with dishevelled hair over her bare neck, and sharp, prominent shoulder-blades, wound her arms round poor Lieschtschenko’s neck and sang in his ear in her shrill soprano, and in unison with the violin’s awful melody: “When consumption sets its mark, And you’re lying pale and stark, And doctors are seen fumbling round your couch.”
— from The Duel by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin