It is all very well to poise your racket overhead, sway backwards and send the whizzing ball against the wall.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 713, August 25, 1877 by Various

155 Lest perchance your reckoning on some latter day be worse, Halt and hearken, lords of land and princes of the purse, Ere the tide be full that comes with blessing and with curse.
— from A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne

37 Place your row of stitches half an inch apart all down the wound.
— from Backwoods Surgery & Medicine by Charles Stuart Moody

And when Mis' Farley said yuh must either pay yo' rent or she would ask yuh for your room,
— from The Easiest Way Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911 by Eugene Walter

“Pull your right oar,” said Priscilla.
— from Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham

Would the people you represent object seriously to an amendment to subdivision 3, on page 16, which would strike out all after the words "United States" where they occur?
— from Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents, on H.R. 19853, to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1906. by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents