"Oh, it's my uncle," said Ethan, rather relieved at the interruption; and he hurried after Venus, feeling, however, deeply dissatisfied with his leave-taking of An' Jerusha.
— from The Open Question: A Tale of Two Temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

I was delighted with the southern dialect, and with the songs of the mountaineers; and, best of all, my unfamiliar surroundings ever reminded me that I was in a strange country.
— from The Story of a Child by Pierre Loti

One of the amusing minor results of these conditions is that, while we have observed the effect of marriage upon social economic relation and the effect of social economic relation upon marriage,—seeing that the devoted servant of the family was a poor servant of society and that the devoted servant of society was a poor servant of the family, seeing the successful collectivity of celibate institutions,—we have jumped to the conclusion that collective prosperity was conditioned upon celibacy, and that we did not want it.
— from Women and Economics A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

where the green and orange morn unfurls, See Erin rise.
— from Freedom, Truth and Beauty Sonnets by Edward Doyle

[Pg 102] towards which my unsettled spirit ever returned, and no scheme for future happiness ever occupied my thoughts, of which you were not the soul and centre.
— from Tales of My Time, Vol. 2 (of 3) Who Is She? [concluded]; The Young Reformers by William Pitt Scargill

Of the money which you mentioned, I have no immediate need; keep it, however, for me, unless some exigence requires it.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell

From this time forward Sophronia continued mending, until she entirely recovered. CHAPTER XVI.
— from History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother by Lucy Smith