"Ah, I seem all right now," said the queer animal, with a sigh.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

There are, of course, points obvious enough to a Spanish seventeenth century audience which do not immediately strike a reader now-a-days, and Cervantes often takes it for granted that an allusion will be generally understood which is only intelligible to a few.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The brotherhood of man, if taken literally, is therefore a misleading term, nor is such a relationship necessary to the peace of the world.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

But his is such a rich nature!
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For one brief instant I thought such a course would be best; then came the vision of the cell, and I shuddered, and resolved, now I had undertaken to escape, to continue as I had begun.
— from The Last Cruise of the Spitfire; or, Luke Foster's Strange Voyage by Edward Stratemeyer

Chester and me have had a round or so, and he'd just wore out one of his friends and was tryin' to tease somebody else to put 'em on, when I spots a rubber neck in the back of the hall.
— from Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford