The spot was considerably elevated above the level of the low ground, and from an opening in the shrubbery at the further extremity could be seen the larger valley with all its wealth of forest and meadow, its knolls, and slopes, and wooded uplands, with the river winding like a silver thread throughout its whole extent.
— from The Hot Swamp by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Many I knew as soon as I might scan, The heavy Royal George , the Acre bright, The Hogue and Ajax , and could name aright Others that I remember now no more; But chief, her blue flag flying at the fore, [Pg 231] With fighting guns a hundred thirty and one, The Admiral ship The Duke of Wellington , Whereon sail’d George, who in her gig had flown The silken ensign by our sisters sewn.
— from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 2 by Robert Bridges

This remark of Leighton's is ingenious and startling. Another, and more fruitful, perhaps more solid inference from the fact would be, that there is something in the human mind which makes it know (as soon as it is sufficiently awakened to reflect on its own thoughts and notices), that in all finite Quantity there is an Infinite, in all measures of Time an Eternal; that the latter are the basis, the substance, the true and abiding reality of the former; and
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In a private letter, on the tenth of August, Washington referred to these movements in Kentucky, and said, after expressing a conviction that there “must exist a predisposition among them to be dissatisfied:” “The protection they receive, and the unwearied endeavors of the general government to accomplish, by repeated and ardent remonstrances, what they seem to have most at heart—namely, the navigation of the Mississippi—obtain no credit with them, or, what is full as likely, may be concealed from them, or misrepresented by those societies , which, under specious colorings, are spreading far and wide, either from real ignorance of the measures pursued by the government, or from a wish to bring it, as much as they are able, into discredit; for what purposes, every man is left to his own conjectures.”
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

I still did duty as a ship’s boy, and by this means Jack was able to instruct me in knotting and splicing, and other minutiae of a seaman’s education, which I found especially useful.
— from Won from the Waves by William Henry Giles Kingston

Many I knew as soon as I might scan, The heavy Royal George , the Acre bright, The Hogue and Ajax , and could name aright Others that I remember now no more; But chief, her blue flag flying at the fore, {335} With fighting guns a hundred thirty and one, The Admiral ship The Duke of Wellington , Whereon sail'd George, who in her gig had flown The silken ensign by our sisters sewn.
— from The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas by Robert Bridges

M ISS K ATE S ANBORN , Metcalf, Mass. D EAR M ISS S ANBORN : You may be interested to know that your book on old wall-papers is included in a list of books specially recommended for libraries in Great Britain, compiled by the Library Association of the United Kingdom, recently published in London.
— from Memories and Anecdotes by Kate Sanborn

“I like your brother better than any other man I know,” Anna said at last.
— from Anna the Adventuress by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Our mongoose is killing a snake"; and Rikki-tikki heard a scream from Teddy's mother.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

He had a nephew named Irvin T. Pyles he raised from a baby, and Mister Irvin kept a store at de corner of de roads at our plantation.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration