If you persist in this your uncle shall die, but you shall not escape me.
— from Jess by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

As the snow gets deeper and deeper they become prisoners in the yard until spring comes to melt the snow and set them free.
— from The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

"To assume that egoistic pleasures may be relinquished to any extent is to fall into one of those many errors of ethical speculation which result from ignoring the laws of biology.... To yield up normal pleasure is to yield up so much life; and there arises the question:—to what extent may this be done?...
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

A great many people imagine that "your Uncle Sam" will frazzle hell's bells out of Spain in one word and two motions, that all of this preparation for threatened conflict with Spain is much ado about little; that the United States will get up early some morning and administer the paternal slipper to the Spanish pantaloon, simply by way of diversion or to get up an appetite for breakfast.
— from The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann

Joanna advised her to go out and play in the yard until she had got her work done, and then to come in and sit with her.
— from Cousin Lucy's Conversations By the Author of the Rollo Books by Jacob Abbott