The native proprietor ushered me into a darkened room and handed me a napkin.
— from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 16, January, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy by Various

In spite of his look of kindly good humor, he is none too popular with the human race and his methods are not always of the gentlest.
— from Time Telling through the Ages by Harry Chase Brearley

The one servant which their finances enabled them with difficulty to retain, and whom they engaged as a maid of all work (and certainly she was not permitted by Mrs Forster to be idle in her multifarious duty), seldom remained above her month ; and nothing but the prospect of immediate starvation could induce any one to offer herself in the capacity.
— from Newton Forster by Frederick Marryat

At that moment a boy entered the room and handed me a note from Zourin.
— from The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

We are told that the Australian savage who falls from a tree and breaks his neck is not regarded as having met a natural death, but as having been the victim of the magical practices of the "medicine-man" of some neighboring tribe.
— from A History of Science — Volume 1 by Edward Huntington Williams

Of the other fossilized remains of extinct varieties of the human family, the most important are those known respectively as Heidelberg man and Neanderthal man.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Estremoz to Felspar Volume 4, Part 3 by Various

Then, turning to ride back into Oakland, a thought came to him that made him grin ruefully as he muttered: "And now it's up to me to make good and buy that blamed quarry.
— from Burning Daylight by Jack London

"I didn't know this was a bureau to extract information," Burton remarked, as he made a note of the doctor's home address from the directory.
— from The Red House on Rowan Street by Lily A. (Lily Augusta) Long

On this account the rationalistic and hedonistic motives are no longer abstractly sundered, as in the days of the Stoics and Epicureans, but tend to be absorbed in broader philosophical tendencies.
— from The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry