Dog-fights, though punishable by law, are still held, and young boys and old men flock to them, and learn to be lower than the brutes in diabolical cruelty because of them.
— from Scamp and I: A Story of City By-Ways by L. T. Meade

"Well, a man went to him lately, and sais he: 'Are you the great John Jacob?'
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I was not beholden to them for anything, and when I slipped out there was not one of them to drop me a line and say, 'How are you, old man?
— from Burning Daylight by Jack London

Why, it seems like only the other morning she skipped onto my car, laughin' and sayin', 'How are you to-day, Mr. Barnes?'
— from Queed: A Novel by Henry Sydnor Harrison

Ah, dear sister, be happy in your new life and shed happiness around you there, just as you did here, when you bound all our hearts so fast to yours.
— from Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Adjeng Kartini

Looked at superficially, he appeared young, wild, silent, locked in his primeval apathy, just a healthy savage; but looked at more attentively, he appeared matured, even old, a strange, sad, brooding figure, with a burden on his shoulders.
— from The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey

And every one of the four million other dogs that was in the crowd on the sidewalks fell into line, and such howling and yapping and scampering and screaming you never heard.
— from Cape Cod Stories by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Lawrence, Lewis, and Slingsby, having as yet had no experience of such places, expressed, or held a similar opinion, but the Professor bade them wait and see.
— from Rivers of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

"Now stand a little away," said he, "And you'll hear a noise so loud and strong
— from Harper's Young People, July 5, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various