We shall be Dear playmates ever, never growing old,— Or if we do 'twill be at such a pace Time will grow weary chiding, leaving us To come at will. Hen.
— from Lords and Lovers, and Other Dramas by Olive Tilford Dargan

Get his pay-book out of his pocket, 'Erb. Not got one?
— from The Willing Horse: A Novel by Ian Hay

No large group and probably even no genus or large species has been evolved without the joint agency of these two great principles.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

N the year 1893, after a succession of events which are still remembered with emotion, M. Clemenceau fell from political eminence, not gradually or by transitions of decay, but with theatrical suddenness like that of a Lucifer "hurled headlong flaming from the ætherial sky.
— from Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse

A week passed, Eustacia never going out of the house.
— from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

The result of an interview perhaps even now going on would determine whether or no I should be immediately released from a slavery I detested.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

We shall be Dear playmates ever, never growing old,— Or if we do 'twill be at such a pace Time will grow weary chiding, leaving us To come at will.
— from Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 2 of 2 by John Wilson Townsend