I may not be able to refer to these roads again except incidentally, and will, therefore, record here that the location of this branch afterward was changed from the Republican to the Smoky Hill Fork of the Kansas River, and is now the main line to Denver.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Thereupon the princess seized the broom and threw it on the fire, but although the broom burned, the deathless Koshchei remained alive; indeed not so much as a hair of him was singed.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

"O mother," she kept repeating, as if nothing more would come.
— from Troublesome Comforts A Story for Children by G. R. (Geraldine Robertson) Glasgow

If accosted by a stranger with a request for information as to streets, directions, etc., one should kindly reply, and, if not able to give the desired information, should, if possible, direct the stranger where to make further inquiries.
— from Etiquette by Agnes H. Morton

Inilapàg ni Hwàn aŋ kanya ŋ dalà, at sinábi nya sa dalawà: “Dala ko ríto aŋ iniyútos ninyo sa áki ŋ nakáwin.
— from Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis by Leonard Bloomfield

I have now by me, as I write, a silver messenger-ring of King Robert, and I never see it without thinking of the corner of the room by the side-door where I stood when grandmother spoke of the death of Goethe.
— from Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

"Just think of it, I was pressing and took my eye off the ball," she kept reiterating, "and I never knew it.
— from The Orchid by Robert Grant

As for coal, about three-fourths of the world's known reserves are in North America.
— from The Next Step: A Plan for Economic World Federation by Scott Nearing

He asked where I was thinking of going; as he knew Rome and its neighbourhood as well as I knew my mother's drawing-room, I placed myself in his hands.
— from Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Brandes