And in nearly all of them melons were grown—early melons and late, French, English, domestic—dwarf melons and monsters: every shape, colour and variety.
— from The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 by Edith Wharton

They were mistaken at Ligny for enemies; d'Erlon's vacillation had so detained them.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

My landlady gave me a little food every day, some bread and butter, mornings and evenings, and my nervousness had almost flown.
— from Hunger by Knut Hamsun

But we have enough water-casks for three hundred men, and lumber for extra decks, and shackles and nigger food."
— from The Great Quest A romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea by Charles Boardman Hawes

Violet had not yet seen the Brandons, as they had been making visits before returning home; but she had many ardent letters from Emma, describing the progress of her acquaintance with Miss Marstone, the lady who had so excited her imagination, and to whom she had been introduced at a school festival.
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

It would have been impossible for me to do without this love, and now to love alone,—to love without hope," added the poor girl, hardly able to restrain her tears, "oh, it is worse than death, for it means a life for ever desolate."
— from Pride: One of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue