It was nearly seven before she came in, looking so ill and tired that the children felt they could not ask her any questions.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

In the first case the lion goes straight for the man, while the man appears to attempt to get in the rear of the lion; in the second case it looks suspiciously like running away from one another!
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Ill. Pratt Institute Free Library, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. A. W. Proetz, St. Louis, Mo. Public Library, Detroit, Mich. Public Library of Fort Wayne & Allen County, Fort Wayne, Ind. Putnam Bookstore, New York, N. Y. Charles Retz, New York, N. Y. Dr. Georg Roemmert, New York, N. Y. Everett E. Rogerson, Chicago, Ill. Otto Sattler, New York, N. Y. Walter W. Schmauch, Chicago, Ill. Louis Sherwin, New York, N. Y. Jay G. Sigmund, Cedar Rapids, Iowa André L. Simon, London Ray Smith, Milwaukee, Wis. Albert V. Smolka, Vienna, Austria State University of Iowa Library, Iowa City, Iowa Renee B. Stern, Philadelphia Record, Philadelphia,
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

[1] MINUTAL MATIANUM PUT IN A SAUCE PAN OIL, BROTH FINELY CHOPPED LEEKS, CORIANDER, SMALL TID-BITS, COOKED PORK SHOULDER, CUT INTO LONG STRIPS INCLUDING THE SKIN, HAVE EVERYTHING EQUALLY HALF DONE.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

They detract, scoff and rail, saith one, [4024] and bark at me on every side, but I, like that Albanian dog sometimes given to Alexander for a present, vindico me ab illis solo contemptu , I lie still and sleep, vindicate myself by contempt alone.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

" "You mean the evening when the Scobells were there, and Carrie had been doing parish work all the day, and she came in looking so pale and fagged?
— from Esther : a book for girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

"You have always been so kind to me," she continued, in less steady tones, "that I am sure you will let me go on.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

She woke at noon among the scented curtains, in linen sea-breeze bleached, under the camceil roof p. 36 that all children love, for it makes a garret like the ancestral cave, and in rainy weather they can hear the pattering feet of foes above them.
— from The Daft Days by Neil Munro

The sword shall cleave it, Life shall leave it— Who shall know the hour?
— from Embers, Volume 2. by Gilbert Parker

As he chopped away the Rabbit inside kept singing, “Cut it larger, so you can see me better; I’m so pretty.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

She had some cousins in London; she determined to travel, to visit them.
— from Cape of Storms: A Novel by Percival Pollard