Mr Thrale used to persuade him to mount a horse, as well as ride in a coach: "He certainly rode on Mr Thrale's old hunter with a good firmness, and though he would follow the hounds fifty miles on end sometimes, would never own himself either tired or amused.
— from The Story of Doctor Johnson; Being an Introduction to Boswell's Life by S. C. (Sydney Castle) Roberts

A young gentleman sent it over from Philadelphia to my grandmother, with a letter to say he was married and happy, and would always remember her.
— from Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Arthur Quiller-Couch

The exercises demand joy, expansion, extension, stretching, deep breathing, co-ordination of various parts and the specific accentuation of the movements and harmonious as well as rhythmic alternation.
— from How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry

Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill; For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will; And God stands winding His lonely horn; And time and the world are ever in flight, And love is less kind than the gray twilight, And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn.
— from Poems of To-Day: an Anthology by Various

" "Ay," said Campbell, eyeing Morris as he assented with a rueful grin to the Justice's observations, "much like the ease of a tod under a pair of harrows—But fear nothing, Mr. Morris; you and I maun leave the house thegither.
— from Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Walter Scott

For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will; And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight;
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 1 (of 8) Poems Lyrical and Narrative by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

The same behaviour was attributed to her at the time when I knew her; the fact may have been true, but her manner was reserved and quiet, she spoke modestly and her appearance was absolutely respectable.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

He moved slowly towards the group of men awaiting his approach with a reserved air of something like hauteur; it was possible he was conscious of his good looks, but it was equally evident that he did not desire to be made the object of impertinent remark.
— from Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul by Marie Corelli

So away the eagle soared, and about ten minutes afterwards he alighted with a rush right in the middle of the poultry yard at Arrandoon Castle.
— from The Cruise of the Snowbird: A Story of Arctic Adventure by Gordon Stables