I supposed you only knew Hartmut through me, and considered him a Roumanian!"
— from The Northern Light by E. Werner

Then mamma was married and came here, and Rock's mother was married and went to California.
— from A Sweet Little Maid by Amy Ella Blanchard

"You needn't tell me anything," came her angry retort from very close by.
— from The Green Odyssey by Philip José Farmer

Sophia’s monstrous, sly operation in Mr. Povey’s mouth did not cause either of them much alarm, Constance having apparently recovered from the first shock of it.
— from The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

But the primary cause of his being so far in the north was the simple fact that he had had the chance of buying a property very cheap—a fine property of mist and cloud, heather and rock, mountain and moor, and with no such reputation for grouse as to enhance its price.
— from What's Mine's Mine — Complete by George MacDonald

Now, for this reason, and for the further reason that it is a matter of immense importance that we guard against despotism, I oppose changing the personnel of the General Conference without my Annual Conference has a right to vote upon it, and it is voted upon.
— from Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 by Marietta Holley

Would that you might perceive your total lack of supreme love of God, as the young ruler perceived his; and would that, unlike him, instead, of going away from the Son of God, you would go to Him, crying, "Lord create within me a clean heart, and renew within me a right spirit."
— from Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd

Brother Wyman, who acts in the double capacity of manager and clown, has a robe of crazy patchwork design, a veritable coat of many colors, in which he has arrayed himself, much to the amusement {37} AT FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
— from Nine Thousand Miles on a Pullman Train An Account of a Tour of Railroad Conductors from Philadelphia to the Pacific Coast and Return by Milton M. Shaw

It forms Document R-124, to which my American colleagues have already referred.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

Now, madmen and children have a rooted dislike for strange places, and Sanders, backing on this, fixed his ambush in the narrow end of the gorge.
— from Bosambo of the River by Edgar Wallace