A quiet girlhood, fifteen years of perfect married life, and now, a common struggle to keep from being despondent and to make both ends meet.
— from The Shadow by Mary White Ovington

"Late hours, late dinners, lights, and noise, and crowded streets, and air that hes been breathed by hundreds and thousands before it reaches the poor child, and——" "Nay, mother, that's enough.
— from The Measure of a Man by Amelia E. Barr

They left a little after nine, and Caroline said good night and went to her room.
— from Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

How can the one kind be a complete sacrament or the laity and not a complete sacrament for the priests?
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther

The British party was taken to Mount Vernon on the revenue cutter "Harriet Lane," accompanied by President Buchanan, Miss Lane, nearly all of the Diplomatic Corps, and the leading army, navy, and civil- service officials.
— from Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore

The Oxford Dictionary quotes Lamb, 'a notched and cropt scrivener'.
— from The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems Society for Pure English, Tract 05 by Society for Pure English

The Rosary he said in his straw lair at night, and certain stimulating reading contained in a sea-stained and grimy-paged Scout's Notebook, that nobody had seen him with, or having seen had thought it worth their while to take away.
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan

The "somebody coming" was a very quiet but a very observing girl, who, as she saw the sudden start of Lizzy and Nelly, also caught sight of the little white missive as it was whisked into Nelly's pocket, and immediately thought,— "There's some mischief going on.
— from A Flock of Girls and Boys by Nora Perry

"His pictures of Orcadian life and nature are charming."— Saturday Review .
— from The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty