"But what if one pair of us find something?"
— from The High School Boys' Fishing Trip by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

We now pass to a rapid survey of properties as observed in gifts of nature, as modified by art, as turned to account in many ingenious ways, as studied by the investigators who would fain know in what particulars of ultimate form, size and motion, properties may really consist.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

She ordered the oars to be manned and the sails to be hoisted, and then forcing her way through a portion of the fleet that was engaged in the contest, and throwing the vessels into confusion as she passed, she succeeded in getting to sea, and then pressed on, under full sail, down the coast to the southward.
— from Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott

Yet in this plea, as it becomes us to use confidence, because he gives us ground by his promises, so we should season it with humility, knowing how infinitely free and voluntary his condescension is, being always mindful, that he may in righteousness exact punishment of us for sin, rather than we seek forgiveness from him.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Celia, without a maid in the kitchen, will find plenty of use for such a quick brain as lies under this thatch."
— from The Second Violin by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond