Lo you, the Carrousel has burst into flame!—Paris Pandemonium!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Of late years, the country has been occupied in discussing the claim of man to hold property in his fellow-man, and has decided the question in the negative.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, old beast!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

But these last years the clergy have been persistently outraged, mocked, calumniated, reviled and derided by almost all the papers published in Piedmont. ”
— from Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson

Of late years, the case has altered greatly; for, if we except a few large concerns, such as banking-houses, and the principal merchants, who, having valuable cargoes on hand, are each under the necessity of retaining one of this jew-like gang, for the purpose of obtaining cash to make up payments, or to advance for investments, banians are become obsolete.
— from The East India Vade-Mecum, Volume 1 (of 2) or, complete guide to gentlemen intended for the civil, military, or naval service of the East India Company. by Thomas Williamson

Transportation was to continue in force, but it was to be governed by certain checks and safeguards which had been altogether absent before, through all the long years that convicts had been sent out to the antipodes.
— from Prisons Over Seas Deportation and Colonization; British and American Prisons of To-day by Arthur Griffiths

Of late years the critics have been finding fault with Longfellow.
— from Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb

Romney could not feel his limbs, yet they carried him forward to the outstretched hand.
— from The Last Ditch by Will Levington Comfort

Authentic tables show the extent to which during the last year the currency has been affected by their interference.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Reynolds jumped up and yelled that the people must disperse, but an old man with a thick cane walked up and said to the Missourian: "You damned infernal puke, we'll learn you to come here and interrupt our gentlemen.
— from The Latter-Day Prophet: History of Joseph Smith Written for Young People by George Q. (George Quayle) Cannon

“We can get some stores from the Heart ; s’pose I go off to her and fetch what’s wanted and leave you two chaps here?”
— from Sea Plunder by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

Thou art here,—thou wilt save me; we shall live yet the common happy life, that life with thee is happiness and glory enough to me.
— from Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron