More, he granted by his letters patents, dated the 6th of March, that no Escheater should be in the city, but the mayor for his time.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

I'm sure I dont want anybody to be shot: not even Slattox; but if the public never will take any notice of even the most crying evil until somebody is shot, what are people to do but shoot somebody?
— from Getting Married by Bernard Shaw

A comely child, with flaxen curls and innocent northern eyes, stands bowing in the road, with an almost Syrian grace.
— from Free Russia by William Hepworth Dixon

"Vel, no, not eggsactly sure, but I t'ink ve pe all righd now.
— from Fritz to the Front, or, the Ventriloquist Scamp-Hunter by Edward L. (Edward Lytton) Wheeler

It was as if a child with a teaspoon and a bowl of sand were set to filling up a big chasm: her spoonful of sand had not even struck bottom in that pit of horror!
— from The Turn of the Tide: The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

You know me fairly well, and that I am not easily staggered, but I tell you candidly when I looked round on the crew that rushed the Creek I felt a trifle uncomfortable.
— from The Second String by Nat Gould