Up a horrible little court branching northward from it good old George Cruikshank once showed me the house where Jack Sheppard, the robber and prison-breaker, served his apprenticeship to Mr. Wood, the carpenter; and on a beam in the loft of this house Jack is said to have carved his name.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Encke's comet tells us that the sun is 1,050 times as heavy as Jupiter; so the results are practically identical, and the accuracy of the indications of the comet are confirmed.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

Jael seized the reins, and pulled them so powerfully, she stopped the pony directly.
— from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade

Jim started to run, and Pony waited till he got out of sight and holloed; then he began to shout, “Father!
— from The Flight of Pony Baker A Boy's Town Story by William Dean Howells

Johnny seized the rope and pulled for dear life.
— from Children of the Dear Cotswolds by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker

[35] Mr. James S. Thomson read a paper before the Dumfries Antiquarian Society, supplying some interesting glimpses of bygone times, furnished by the Kirk-Session Records of Dumfries.
— from Bygone Punishments by William Andrews

Having, therefore, gathered his forces together at Santa Ana, near La Paz, he sent thence to Loreto, inviting Junipero Serra, the recently appointed President of the California Missions, to visit him in his camp.
— from The Famous Missions of California by William Henry Hudson

The pair walked into the hotel, and Joe saw them register and pass down the corridor in the company of a bell boy.
— from Joe the Hotel Boy; Or, Winning out by Pluck by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Take six large lemons, pare off the rind, and cut the lemons and squeeze out the juice, and in the juice steep the rind, and put it to a quart of brandy—so far, brother, the court is with you—and let it stand in an earthen pot close stop’t three days, and then squeeze six more, and mix with two quarts of spring-water, and as much sugar as will sweeten the whole, and boil the water and lemons and sugar together, and let it stand till ’tis cool.
— from The Flowing Bowl A Treatise on Drinks of All Kinds and of All Periods, Interspersed with Sundry Anecdotes and Reminiscences by Edward Spencer