I could have done that myself—I could have put in three halfpence, and made all right, but it would have been all wrong in another way.
— from The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys by M. B. Manwell

She hurried into the hall and made a running ascent of the stairs.
— from Marjorie Dean, Post-Graduate by Josephine Chase

Still, the donkey had rather been left in the hedges, and many a race round and round the field did he give George, and many a time did he kick up his hinder legs in defiance before George at length succeeded in throwing the halter over his head.
— from Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

We have here plainly laid the case before you, and doubt not but you will so much take it to heart, and make all Readinesse in the Spring to invade Canida by water."
— from France and England in North America, Part V: Count Frontenac, New France, Louis XIV by Francis Parkman

Presently Dame Betsy went down to the store to buy some pepper to put in the stew, but as she went out of the door she spoke to the eldest daughter, and told her to go into the house and mend a rent in her apron.
— from Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

It had exercised him sore in the searching of the Scriptures, and oftentimes had he pointed to its presence in the heavens, and many a restless night had he given to my mother.
— from Ben o' Bill's, the Luddite: A Yorkshire Tale by D. F. E. Sykes

All human experience, either of an inward or outward world, if it is to have any meaning and reality at all, involves the {127} existence of this inclusive Whole of Reality, that is of God.
— from Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones

The boys accepted the invitation, and with some cold meat and hard-tack placed on the locker where it could not slide off, and mugs of steaming coffee in their hands, all made a remarkably jolly meal under the unfavorable circumstances.
— from The Search for the Silver City: A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan by James Otis

Great has been the influence of these reformers and philosophers, statesmen and poets, hanging in the heavens above men and raining down inspiration upon the human imagination.
— from The Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Newell Dwight Hillis

The land is just lying there useless, worthless; and the squirrels play in and out among the trees, and the mocking-birds sing in the honeysuckles and magnolias and rose-bushes where the front yard used to be.
— from Diddie, Dumps, and Tot; Or, Plantation Child-Life by Louise Clarke Pyrnelle