No horse is mine;––if I walk abroad for my own health a vaquero ever is after me that I ride back with no fatigue to myself!
— from The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Marah Ellis Ryan

The Chicago papers were still filled with criticism of his work and his theories, and this discussion, as well as the appearance of his portrait in the magazines, had made of him a very exalted person in little Mrs. Haney's eyes, and the interest he took in her was too subtly flattering not to affect her.
— from Money Magic: A Novel by Hamlin Garland

Whether these musical times can be applied to the lyric and heroic verses of the Greek and Latin poets, I do not pretend to determine; certain it is, that the dactyle verse of our language, when it is ended with a double rhime, much resembles the measure of Homer and Virgil, except in the length of the lines.
— from The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. by Erasmus Darwin

Some waste leisure and a good deal of postage may be disposed of in correspondence with ingenious Americans, inventors and discoverers: as, for instance, with a man in Arkansas or Minnesota, who informs you that he has contrived a new and infallible method of heating and ventilating European cities, and wishes it brought to the notice of the authorities there, it being deemed the duty of the American Consul to give attention to such matters.
— from Peter Parley's Own Story From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley") by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

The Great Being, to whom the hearing of those well-said sentences procured an intense gladness, praised the Brâhman with kind words and marks of honour, and valuing each gâthâ at the rate of one thousand (pieces of gold), rewarded him with the wealth so much desired for.
— from The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories by Aryasura

In order to give a coloring to his usurpation in the eyes of Christian Europe, and to set at rest any scruples which may have remained in the minds of his adherents, Victor Emmanuel caused a law to be enacted on the 13th March, 1871, which is known as the law of guarantees .
— from Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson