When in the twilight the grandmother gathers the children about her knee for a story, whether it be a bit of her own life or a tale from a book, she does not strive after effect, but tells the story simply and naturally, just as she knows it will best suit the children.
— from Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story by Charles Raymond Barrett

Brander realized now that she had no jacket, and suffered keenly to think that she had contemplated going without one.
— from Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

There are also cat yawls which have no jibs and some ketches and yawls carry lugsails on both masts, or have a boom and gaff mainsail and a lugsail mizzen or even a sprit, lateen, leg-o’-mutton, gunter or other type of mizzen sail.
— from The Book of the Sailboat: How to rig, sail and handle small boats by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

When it comes right down to it—” “It’s not just a ship,” Kramer said.
— from Mr. Spaceship by Philip K. Dick

All he left was hers too, by natural justice; and she knew it.
— from The Woman Who Did by Grant Allen