"I advise you to sail away in one of your ships, and never come home again till you have tried your own way," said Jo, whose imagination was fired by the thought of such a daring exploit, and whose sympathy was excited by what she called "Teddy's wrongs."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

"I advise you to sail away in one of your ships, and never come home again till you have tried your own way," said Jo, whose imagination was fired by the thought of such a daring exploit, and whose sympathy was excited by what she called 'Teddy's Wrongs'.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

When the sudden and noisy commotion had a little subsided, the aged chief resumed his examination.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Angry at being baulked so often, and determined to discover his business, I followed sharply, and nearly caught him at the bottom of the narrow street running at right angles to the Rue Crillon.
— from My Sword's My Fortune: A Story of Old France by Herbert Hayens

Every worshiper of self and nature confirms himself against divine providence: 1.
— from Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg

I have no objection to a ghost or two—none of your mice in the wainscotting, or swaying beams in the attic, but the good old-fashioned ghost of some poor soul, with streaming black hair and pale face, who concealed her malady and carried her secret with her under the turf, and, discontented in Heaven, must come back to the old place where he used to be, and walk under the trees where they used to walk—the trees which know the secret as well as she, for they heard it; or the ghost of the boy who ran away and went to sea and never came home again, whose sad story most any wave crawling up the sand will tell you, if you will listen aright; or the ghost of that wrinkled old flint who hid his ingots under the tiles of the hearth, and comes back now and then to see if they are safe.
— from Letters of Peregrine Pickle by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

Miss Jessop turned over the pages of the book which had been given her, and as she did so a name caught her attention.
— from One Day's Courtship, and The Heralds of Fame by Robert Barr

I saw that the man who brought them physical help had a chance with them such as no clergyman had—an advantage quite as needful with them as with the heathen—to whom we are not so immediately debtors.
— from Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

And then, after she’d cried her eyes out, she’d have said, ‘Dotty, take off your [109] water proof, dear; I don’t want my little girl to go to school and never come home any more.’
— from Dotty Dimple at School by Sophie May

The elevatory movement, and the eating-back power of the sea during the periods of rest, have been equable over long lines of coast; for I was astonished to find that the step-like plains stand at nearly corresponding heights at far distant points.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin

Since my residence here, I have often been at a loss to imagine how such a notion could have arisen, for I am acquainted with no town, in which it has struck me there is more true hospitality than in Paris.
— from Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper