One while he is enrolled in spires making enormous rings; sometimes he unfolds himself straighter than a long beam.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

“You are still dear to me, and must ever remain so,” he replied.
— from Chetwynd Calverley New Edition, 1877 by William Harrison Ainsworth

from my earliest recollection she has been practising archery upon the target of her neighbours' characters, and she seeks social martyrdom as diligently as Sir Galahad hunted the Sangreal.
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

I was completely exhausted when I began this climb, and did not feel comfortable clinging like a tree frog to the face of a clay bank with nothing to support me except rather shallow holes which could be better negotiated by Ifugaos, possessed of prehensile toes, than by men wearing shoes.
— from The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2) by Dean C. (Dean Conant) Worcester

Before me lay the scene set for my coming adventures, and as the ship threaded the coral reefs, my excitement ran so high that my throat choked, and my eyes suddenly dimmed with tears.
— from Captain Macklin: His Memoirs by Richard Harding Davis

"'It could do no worse,' says I. "'From my earliest recollections,' says he, 'alcohol seemed to stimulate my sense of recitation and rhetoric.
— from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry

She opened it, and cried out with admiration; there lay the most exquisite ring she had ever seen, of pure pale gold, delicately and elaborately chased, and set with three gleaming opals of rare beauty.
— from Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame

55 A celebrated writer, whose good sense, or whose perverseness, would not suffer him to be the dupe of French prejudices, declares himself roundly of this opinion: “On a voulu mettre en representation (says he, speaking of the absurd magnificence of the French Opera) le MERVEILLEUX , qui, n’etant fait que pour être imaginé, EST AUSSI BIEN PLACE DANS UN POEME EPIQUE que ridiculement sur un theatre.”
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 4 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

Consequently, the tree is apt to receive scant consideration after the original forests have disappeared; while its poor cousin, the chestnut oak, will be left to make its way on sterile ridges, and may even receive some help from the forester and woodlot owner.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

As the sea of life rolls on, the waves swell and are turbid; and, as I recede from the horizon of my early recollections, so heaven recedes from me.
— from Rattlin the Reefer by Edward Howard