I'm running across new things every day up here, and don't feel sorry I came, so far."
— from Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay; Or, The Disappearing Fleet by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

But of all their children only one remained, and now the elder De Marsac had a lucrative post at Michilimackinac, while his son went to and fro on business.
— from A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda M. Douglas

She remembered that far night when her full heart had been rejected, and nursed the ecstatic dream that now, when it was used up and a little weary, it might find acceptance.
— from The World's Illusion, Volume 2 (of 2): Ruth by Jakob Wassermann

And this morning's "bell" rings a New Testament echo, "Do it heartily!"
— from Morning Bells; Or, Waking Thoughts for Little Ones by Frances Ridley Havergal

The object of our labor is, to lay the whole subject fairly before the reader, and not to extol drainage as the grand panacea of bad husbandry.
— from Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by Henry F. (Henry Flagg) French