“How are you—prospecting, eh?” said the master quietly, after the established colloquial formula of Red Mountain.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

And after madness acted question asked: Till Edyrn crying, 'If ye will not go To Arthur, then will Arthur come to you,' 'Enough,' he said, 'I follow,' and they went.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Our callers asked a great number of questions about the English constitution, just as Gotô had done, so that it appeared as if both parties were desirous of getting our advice.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

que ayer tarde el cabrero Francisco vió que un hombre, vestido a la malagueña, con pantalón largo y chaquetilla de lienzo, y liado en una manta de muestra, [101-2] se había 10 metido en el corral nuevo por la parte que todavía no tiene tapia, y rondaba la Torre del Moro , estudiándola y midiéndola come si fuese un maestro de obras.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Pliny, inspired with as truly Roman horror of quackery as the elder Cato,—who declared that the Greek doctors had sworn to exterminate all barbarians, including the Romans, with their drugs, but is said to have physicked his own wife to death, notwithstanding,—Pliny says, in so many words, that the cerates and cataplasms, plasters, collyria, and antidotes, so abundant in his time, as in more recent days, were mere tricks to make money.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

That English versification cannot be similarly acquired through the Latin is due to the fact that the Latin system depends on quantity, and the English chiefly on accent and rhyme.
— from Practical Guide to English Versification With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing by Tom Hood

He could picture it all, the dramatic effect of his entrance, the yell of welcome, the buzz of questions, and the evasive, curiosity-enkindling answers which he meant to give.
— from Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

They distinguish between “dominant” and “recessive” qualities, and they establish cases in which parents with all the dominant characteristics produce offspring of recessive type.
— from First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The little brown serving-man deftly opened the bag brought by the colonel's messenger from Ballard's quarters at the Elbow Canyon camp, and laid out the guest's belongings.
— from The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde

Quick as thought, Eleanora caught up a fallen branch that lay upon the bank, and extended it for her rescue.
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss

The foremost was instantaneously felled by a blow vigorously dealt with the cane; and, following up his advantage quickly as the eye can wink, Trevelyan darted at the other keeper, whom he also levelled on the spot.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

In six hours land in the immediate vicinity of the mountain increased in price, until it would hardly have paid to buy it, unless gold could be found in large quantities, and the entire county was in a ferment of excitement.
— from Down the Slope by James Otis

The first, however, should not be used in quantity, as the evolved chlorine might in that case impede the respiration of the patient.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

The Queen and the English Council naturally feared to alienate the few nobles who were friendly to them, as well as the inhabitants of the Pale, who were as a majority in their interest.
— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack