"He is my father," she said, "but he sailed away without telling me his errand; but now that I know everything, I must—" If she had intended to say she must go, she changed her mind, and even came closer to the still astounded captain.
— from Kate Bonnet: The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter by Frank Richard Stockton

"Do you think you'd know her again if you saw her?" "I kenned her the moment I saw her in the streets of this toon, not long before Christmas," was the reply.
— from The Day of Judgment by Joseph Hocking

While the Third Section attacked personal security and liberty, the censorship, more intolerable still, hemmed in the spirit and condemned to a death by inanition a young people hungry for literature and science, for plays, periodicals, and books.
— from Russia: Its People and Its Literature by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de

Ruth felt that on her part she would spend twenty-five thousand dollars more (if she had it to spend) in shipping the whole company over the border and making the remainder of the picture in Canada.
— from Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence; Or, The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands by Alice B. Emerson

Once more I saw her in the same place, also with a book in her hand; but she had a red handkerchief tied round her face, and her eyes were swollen.
— from In the World by Maksim Gorky

“Who is the young man I see here?” inquired the sovereign.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

But the next moment I saw him in the Slav plane that had bagged his!"
— from Astounding Stories, February, 1931 by Various