Ten minutes later we were back on our own steamer, returning to Honolulu as fast as she could carry us, little dreaming what awaited us there.
— from A Crime of the Under-seas by Guy Boothby

But the report goes on to say that nothing would induce him to part with it afterwards, and that he kept it in a specially constructed case, under lock and key, by the side of his bed.
— from More Italian Yesterdays by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

But I didn't know a storm could come up like that, or how bad it could get in a few minutes."
— from Left on the Labrador: A Tale of Adventure Down North by Dillon Wallace

A flood of abusive words, the most obscene and filthy she could conjure up, lay on her tongue.
— from 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? by Franz Adam Beyerlein

Spinoza collection, Cornell University Library.
— from Index to Library Reports by Katharine Twining Moody

Let it pause for a moment in the broad-paved [30] street at your feet with the queer little openings through which humans are sweeping like a black stream into a funnel; others from which the human streams come crawling upward like black molasses and you are again reminded that some of the greatest highways of New York are those that are subterranean and unseen.
— from The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford

Conservative McClellan so conservatively campaigned until last November as to preserve—the rebel armies, and make a terrible winter campaign an inevitable necessity.
— from Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count