You must leave us now, after lunch, and come again in spring, and make a longer stay, and cultivate her acquaintance, and I know you will like each other.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

After each one has his table before him the mayor comes to the center of the hollow square and makes a little speech of welcome.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

Solitude and musing are less sweet.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

We have since also made a limit, sometimes of four minutes, sometimes of five minutes, to the interval for adjustment and deliberation after one move is finished and before the next move begins.
— from Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books. by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

When such a man, after long study of Mrs Piper's phenomena, affirms their validity, we may believe him.
— from Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research by Michael Sage

Some account of the Indians who visited all the Chief Cities in the Eastern States, and made a long stay in Washington in the winter of 1821 .
— from Faux's Memorable Days in America, 1819-20; and Welby's Visit to North America, 1819-20, part 2 (1820) by W. (William) Faux

Among mollusca (such as marine and land shells, the oyster, the snail, &c.), the motions and the conduct of life are dictated by the will, and that suffices, in our belief, to reveal their possession of a soul, imperfect and very elementary, but certainly existent.
— from The Day After Death; Or, Our Future Life According to Science (New Edition) by Louis Figuier

Then Father Christmas held up his hand for silence, and made a little speech, telling them how glad he was to see them all, and how he hoped that they were enjoying themselves, and [35] that they would all be good children in the year that was coming; then he took up a long white wand, with a hook at the end of it, and began to take down the presents from the tree and call out the names which were printed on them.
— from Vivian's Lesson by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Wilson) Grierson