Six months ago you had a prisoner here, captured on the New England border.
— from The Trail of the Sword, Volume 4 by Gilbert Parker

Then the thunderous stamping of six hundred feet, the beating of sticks on shields, and the shrilling rattle of assegai hafts—a sound not quite like any other I ever heard, and I’ve heard it often—add to this the rolling of fierce eyeballs, and the waving of tufted shields in the moonlight and you have a picture unrivalled for thrilling and at the same time exhilarating terror.
— from A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford

“Well, it was your money, and you had a perfect right to,” said Ellen.
— from The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

And when I used to fear—I did fear once, John, I was very young you know—that ours might prove to be an ill-assorted marriage, I being such a child, and you more like my guardian than my husband; and that you might not, however hard you tried, be able to learn to love me, as you hoped and prayed you might; its Chirp, Chirp, Chirp has cheered me up again, and filled me with new trust and confidence.
— from The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home by Charles Dickens

Old Cornish as a language ceased to be spoken about the end of the eighteenth century, but here and there can be found traces of it in the modern Cornish vocabulary, for example: mabyer , a young hen, a pullet, a chicken, O.Cor.
— from Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore by Elizabeth Mary Wright

“You've got a future as much as you have a past, and there's this advantage,—that you can do something with your future.”
— from Dr. Breen's Practice by William Dean Howells

“The money would mean so much to your mother, and you have a perfect right to it.
— from Nancy Brandon by Lilian Garis