After dinner I spent an hour at the gay Café Iberia, in the Carrera de San Jeronimo, and returned early to the hotel.
— from The Stretton Street Affair by William Le Queux

The growth of the province in population and wealth, justified a reasonable expectation that the measures adopted to encourage it would receive the fullest support: and the expediency of affording the new settlers, situated remotely from the great lakes and rivers, an easy approach to market was apparent, and with other matters would, he hoped, be attended to.
— from The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger

His great and general life was honest, and he was justly and rightfully entitled to the appellation, ‘Honest Abe!’
— from The Backwoods Boy; or, The Boyhood and Manhood of Abraham Lincoln by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

‘Ith thutch a trial joining a regiment; everything tho thrange, and Erney tho young, tho inexperienced; he would have been mitherable, quite mitherable, but for you .’
— from A Son of Mars, volume 1 by Arthur Griffiths

Jack admitted readily enough that there were many sides to the mystery as yet unsolved.
— from The Yellow Face by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

As he broke into a shuffling run, for the idol fortunately was lighter than the previous one and he was a more powerful man than Kawa Kendi, another howl of joy and relief echoed throughout the village.
— from Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle