I have had no proof yet of the existence of this Jonathan Small.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

"I will see you to-morrow; any time to-morrow; meantime I will give you a commission which you are at liberty to perform yourself or to entrust to some capable detective.
— from The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green

As the pale yellow of the eastern sky began to grow red, ducks and gulls bestirred themselves.
— from Away in the Wilderness by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The foregoing sections of this Act shall come into force and effect on the first day of October, in the present year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, except only in so far as they relate to the rates of postage on newspapers and periodicals sent to the United States, as to which they shall come into force on the first day of May now next....
— from Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong) Howes

Suzette Darbour was, I had learned from Ray Raymond a few months ago, a decoy in association with a very prince of swindlers, an American who made his head-quarters in Paris, and who had in the past year or two effected amazing coups , financial and otherwise, in the various capitals of Europe.
— from Spies of the Kaiser: Plotting the Downfall of England by William Le Queux

Various causes prompted yet others to escape from the colonial plantations.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various