In the day and early evening mothers air their babies there, the boys fly their kites from the house-tops, undismayed by police regulations, and the young men and girls court and pass the growler.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Now, although they received great assistance and encouragement from the country gentlemen and from the people round about them, yet they were put to great straits: for the weather grew cold and wet in October and November, and they had not been used to so much hardship; so that they got colds in their limbs, and distempers, but never had the infection; and thus about December they came home to the city again.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

“The Duchess de l’Oragnais told me, that, four or five years ago, you were often to be seen at the Palais Royal, and that you used to spend whole days with the Duchess d’Orleans; Madame de Bouffers, Madame de Blots, and Madame de Melfort have also talked to me about you.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

During all this time—a period rapidly approaching three years—Hurstwood had been moving along in an even path.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

“Yes, that you were able to do; but you could not make yourself beloved by them, though you played the philanthropic rôle as though you were acting in a stage-play, and flattered them all shamefully.”
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

"I was not aware that you were a poet, Mr. Orton," Percy remarked, as the young man arose, and began to affect the bashful-school-girl air.
— from Mal Moulée: A Novel by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The drought and extreme heat had forced grain into premature ripeness and the yield thereby was somewhat diminished.
— from See America First by Charles J. Herr

This place became a princely residence about the year 1800, since which time it has been more or less frequented as such down to the 4th June, 1814, the date of the memorable charter.[21] Madame de Pompadour possessed the chateau in 1745, so you see it has been "dust to dust" with this place, as with all that is frail.
— from Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper

Practice reading aloud to your friends, standing sometimes at the very end of the room, or at the end of a suite of rooms, as far as possible from your hearers, asking any one of them to interrupt you the moment that anything you say is not distinctly heard.
— from Elementary Composition by George R. (George Rice) Carpenter

All who fall on the pavement of Paris rebound against these yellow-gray walls, on which a philanthropist who was not a speculator might read a justification of the numerous suicides complained of by hypocritical writers who are incapable of taking a step to prevent them—for that justification is written in that ante-room, like a preface to the dramas of the Morgue, or to those enacted on the Place de la Greve.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

He says that lecturing there and lecturing at other Institutions, and writing, you could with certainty make more than you at present receive, and that you would have the command of a capital laboratory and plenty of time.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Thomas Henry Huxley

Five minutes later the girl emerged from her porch room, and the young man leaped to his feet, gazing as though at a vision.
— from Dixie Martin, the Girl of Woodford's Cañon by Grace May North

Patty really admired the young fellow, he seemed such a big, innocent-hearted boy; but she enjoyed posting Annis as to her side of the argument.
— from A Little Girl in Old Washington by Amanda M. Douglas

Being unwilling to do this, and fearing the enchantments which, by means of a number of Barotse doctors, Mpepe now used in a hut built for the purpose, and longing for peaceful retirement after thirty years' fighting, he heard with pleasure of our arrival at the lake, and came down as far as Sesheke to meet us.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone