What stabs children inflict on us sometimes by their artless words!
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Whatever the cause of this change may be there would appear to be nothing against it having also operated to produce similar changes in other unrelated species, in which case the mimicry hypothesis becomes superfluous.
— from Mimicry in Butterflies by Reginald Crundall Punnett

Muñjála and Sántu continued in office under Siddharája.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

This almost made a basket full, and she carried it off up stairs.
— from Cousin Lucy's Conversations By the Author of the Rollo Books by Jacob Abbott

And yet such "confusion" in one usually so composed did puzzle him, but he said hastily, feeling that it would be better to break the ice at once, "I came here not to 'forgive,' but to seek your forgiveness."
— from From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe