"Tell me the instant minute you see Pa a comin', and I'll dish up the gravy," was Mrs. Wilkins's command, as she stepped in with a cup of tea for old "Harm," as she called Hepsey's mother.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Make your Summer Perry and Cider.
— from The Charm of Gardens by Dion Clayton Calthrop

On Mars, your sister planet, a child was born, the Son of God, the Saviour of the universe.
— from Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World by James Cowan

Everything to make your stay pleasant and comfortable has been arranged.
— from Charred Wood by Kelley, Francis Clement, Bp.

The alcalde , who acted as the colonel’s agent and was largely in his confidence, being an acquaintance of many years’ standing, produced a copy of Colonel Vereker’s will for my inspection, assuring me that this had been drawn up during his last visit to the State capital, while all his affairs were in the most perfect order, “the poor gentleman,” as the alcalde expressed it, “being under the opinion that he would not have long to live,” a presentiment of death I have often found many people to have had.
— from The Ghost Ship: A Mystery of the Sea by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

It is not many years since physicians and communities believed that tuberculosis was inherited.
— from Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow