Say, it is wrong to fight, but don't you think if Adam had put on a pair of boxing gloves, when he found the devil was getting too fresh about the place, and knocked him out in a couple of rounds, and pasted him in the nose, and fired him out of the summer garden, that it would have been a big thing for this world.
— from The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

He placed a kindly hand on Isaac's shoulder.
— from The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country by Elma Ehrlich Levinger

“I know, of course, Mrs. Newt,” continued the intrepid Mrs. Dinks, utterly regardless of Mrs. Dagon, for she had fully considered her part, and knew her own intentions, “that such things are generally arranged by the gentlemen.
— from Trumps by George William Curtis

There surely was much prose in cooking for a family, in pots and kettles hung on its hooks and trammels, over the burning coals and smoke.
— from Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut An Account of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Town Held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, With a Number of Historical Articles and Reminiscences by Various