"'But as we pegged away at our foolishness in the City, every bit as seriously as though we were actually making money, I kept on thinking of you.
— from The Romantic Lady by Michael Arlen

Of this matter I knew only that offerings of food and drink are made to them in tombs.
— from The Ancient Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Two soldiers of the Mounted Infantry killed; one trooper of the Imperial Light Horse slightly, and one officer, Captain Shore—the twenty-third officer of this regiment hit during the last three months—severely wounded.
— from London to Ladysmith via Pretoria by Winston Churchill

"I, why, I am the most important King on the other side of the desert!" shouted Ruggedo exultantly.
— from Handy Mandy in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson

That pleasant fiction has departed from us; but the works are none the less interesting, now that more is known of their origin.
— from Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Reuben Gold Thwaites

To imagine that she would tamely suffer adventurers from one of the most insignificant kingdoms of the Old World to form a settlement in the midst of her empire, within a day's sail of Portobello on one side and of Carthagena on the other, was ludicrously absurd.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

"The more I know of the Other Half," writes a friend to me, "the more I feel the great gulf that is fixed between us, and the more profoundly I grieve that this is the best that Christian civilization has as yet been able to do toward a true social system."
— from The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Twenty dollars were all I possessed in the world; and this sum, at a hotel, would not last me, I knew, over two or three weeks.
— from Lizzy Glenn; Or, The Trials of a Seamstress by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

All that watch, as we drew nearer and nearer to the mainland, I kept on thinking of these crates and boxes, frightened lest any one else should have any suspicion about them, and couldn't help remembering the words in that document which the Skipper had shown me, 'All law-abiding subjects of his Britannic Majesty are hereby warned to abstain from affording assistance to the aforesaid Gerald Wilson, on pain of being indicted for felony.'
— from On Foreign Service; Or, The Santa Cruz Revolution by T. T. (Thomas Tendron) Jeans