A violent storm arose in the night, and next day a scrap of her red cloak was found on the edge of a frightful bog, in which she is believed to have disappeared in the darkness and storm.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

The external use of the magnet, to cure the tooth-ache and other disorders, is a remedy brought into fashion in modern times, but not a new discovery, as supposed by Lessing, who ascribes it to Paracelsus 93 .
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

She’s nice and neat, dainty and sweet; She’s ma little brown Tagalog gal.” [ 235 ] The army officers and their families still form the aristocracy of the Philippines.
— from The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Paul T. (Paul Thomas) Gilbert

She conceived that the man must be impertinent if Mrs. Carbuncle's assertions were true;—but she was neither angry nor disgusted, and she allowed him to talk to her, and even to make love to her, after his nasty pseudo-clerical fashion.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

The moon fairy came nearer and nearer, dancing and swaying in the moonlight.
— from How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell by Sara Cone Bryant

Then she noticed a new drum, a small one only just finished, that had been left out for the sun to dry.
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

The attorney's clerk, in copying out the deed, which was one of considerable length, had written eight or ten words by mistake; and fearing to exasperate his master, by rendering necessary a new deed and stamp, and occasioning trouble and delay, had neatly scratched out the erroneous words, and over the erasure written the correct ones.
— from Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren