The reason is evident: within a generation there will not be left in our land a single son of one of the genuine pioneers of, for instance, New York or Ohio.
— from Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent by Archer Butler Hulbert

THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE ## SOUTHERN LIGHTS AND SHADOWS ## STORIES OF OHIO ## BETWEEN THE DARK AND THE DAYLIGHT ## A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE ##
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Works by William Dean Howells

Whatever may be said of the 364 churches of Rome, (including seven called Basilicae, namely: St. Peter, St. John Lateran, Santa Maria Maggiore, and Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, within the city, and St. Paolo, San Lorenzo and San Sebastian, outside of the walls), all agree, that The Colosseum is the elephant among the ruins of the old city.
— from The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, Italy, and Egypt, Adapted to the Wants of Young Americans Taking Their First Glimpses at the Old World by George H. Heffner

Dick was late and she slipped out of the house before he saw her.
— from The Shadow by Mary White Ovington

Artot's playing seemed to me like the full flower exhausting the plant; Ole Bull's like a star shining out of the infinite space.
— from Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm and Concord by George William Curtis

He dropped the letter, and sat staring out of the window . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

I feel that an inborn and inbred love of constitutional liberty, and some study of our political institutions, have not on this occasion misled me.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

Soon logs and stumps, standing out of the water, marked the mouth of the Caroni; and we had to take a sweep out seaward to avoid its mud-banks.
— from At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies by Charles Kingsley