I shall plough my fields like other people, sow seed.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It looks like an ugly little chromo printed before people knew how to use colors on printing-presses.” Mrs. Fabian leaned over Polly’s shoulder to take a look, and puckered her forehead when she saw the yellowed paper and old stained edges of the picture.
— from Polly's Business Venture by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

"Indeed, brother, it must not," said my father, laying one pale, scholar- like hand mildly on Captain Roland's brown, bellicose, and bony fist, and with the other, outstretched, protecting the menaced, palpitating victim.
— from The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 11 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Pride, calumny, revenge, avarice, prodigality, and debauchery, are condemned throughout the Koran; while trust in God, submission to His will, patience, modesty, forbearance, love of peace, sincerity, frugality, benevolence, liberality, are everywhere insisted upon."
— from From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field