A crowd was a crowd after all even if it was composed of country people, and she kept herself and James in the thick of it.
— from Minerva's Manoeuvres: The Cheerful Facts of a "Return to Nature" by Charles Battell Loomis

She say he look jess like young Massa Vincent, when he was little piccaninny, and she kiss him, and hold him, and hab such a time ober him, and noting would do but he must go ride in de carriage, and she bring us way home to de door.
— from Rose Clark by Fanny Fern

Edith thought: then Maurice pulled one of her pigtails and she kicked him—and after that she was forgotten, for the grown people began to talk, and say it had been a hot day, and that the strawberries needed rain—but Eleanor hoped there wouldn't be a thunderstorm.
— from The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

Helena heard him, yet terrible as his question was, and perilous as she knew her answer must be, she felt no fear.
— from The White Prophet, Volume 2 (of 2) by Caine, Hall, Sir

The love of the poor, to the poor, is often remarked: Privation and sorrow knit hearts as no bands of gold can.
— from Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson

If he could find where this child was, he would send his soldiers to the place and soon kill him, as he had killed many others whom he suspected of seeking to take away his kingdom.
— from Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old A Complete Life of Christ Written in Simple Language, Based on the Gospel Narrative by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

As Ballard dropped, he flung out his arms, seized the plank, and so kept head and shoulders out of the cyanide.
— from Frank Merriwell, Junior's, Golden Trail; Or, The Fugitive Professor by Burt L. Standish