And then, just as you can easily guess, he made it too thick, and had to put in more water.
— from The Curlytops on Star Island; Or, Camping out with Grandpa by Howard Roger Garis

"It is agreed between us Jews, and you Christians (excepting two or three modern Commentators) that the Words of Deuteronomy , xviii.
— from Six Discourses on the Miracles of Our Saviour, and Defences of His Discourses by Thomas Woolston

“Would that I had been born John and you Catherine!” exclaimed the impetuous princess; “and then we would have secured Navarre.”
— from A Book of the Pyrenees by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Francesca probably reads your screeds at her Christian Endeavour meetings just as you cull extracts from Salemina’s for your Current Events Club.
— from Penelope's Postscripts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The supposed tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, but in reality that of Guy Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, appears to have been a privileged part of the Cathedral:—"The Duke's tomb," observes Decker, addressing the gallant, "is a sanctuary; and will keep you alive from worms, and land rats, that long to be feeding on your carcass: there you may spend your legs in winter a whole afternoon; converse, plot, laugh, and talk any thing; jest at your creditor, even to his face; and in the evening, even by lamp-light, steal out; and so cozen a whole covey of abominable catch-polls."
— from Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age by Nathan Drake

The old lady said: "Now we want you to have just all you can eat whenever we think you can stand it."
— from The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain by John R. Cook

Excepting two long journeys a year, causing each an absence of two Sundays, I have taken no lecturing engagements, except one a week, generally Thursdays.
— from T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him by Eleanor McCutcheon Talmage

You have your cumbrous details, and your lawyers, and judges, and juries, and you cannot even proclaim a county in a state of siege without a bill in your blessed Parliament, and a basketful of balderdash about the liberty of the subject.
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

Your string'd look big enough, some days, just as you caught 'em."
— from Dab Kinzer: A Story of a Growing Boy by William O. Stoddard