Kennon hung up, dialed the number, and waited.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

The latter he knew had unquestionably died without issue.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

Lest he should grow too vain upon this encouragement, I to this day keep him under due mortification.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer by Jonathan Swift

“I had a writ againsht him, Mishter Coxsh, but I didn't vant to shpoil shport; and, beshidesh, I didn't know him until dey knocked off his shteel cap!”
— from Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray

The result was not altogether encouraging; for in his absence Edward Butler visited his country a second time, killed his uncle, drove off his cattle, and burned a house full of women and children.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

Moyse looked as if he would have knocked his uncle down at the supposition that he would stay to pick up shell-fish.
— from The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau

[18] Karl Heinzen, "Ueber die Rechte und Stellung der Frauen."
— from Woman under socialism by August Bebel

Alexia Violaea (1589) said that 'nachdem sie were mit ihren Gespielen umb und umb gelauffen eine ziemliche gut Weile, habe sie pflegen in die Höhe über sich zu werffen ein reines subtiles Pulverlein, welches ihr der Teuffel darzu gegeben habe, darvon Raupen, Käffern, Heuschrecken, und dergleichen andere Beschädigung mehr, so Hauffenweise wüchsen, dass die Acker darmit in einem Augenblick überall beschmeist würden'.
— from The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray

Rising from the table he kissed his unhappy daughter affectionately, and, bidding her good-night, he went to the club, where he paid his delinquent dues and house charges and set out once more upon a tolerably care-free existence for five days at least.
— from Jack and the Check Book by John Kendrick Bangs

Besides these letters, John Yeardley kept his usual Diary, which often enables us to add to the narrative, traits of character and reflections not to be found in their joint epistles.
— from Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley