So in London, while you rarely see a young lady alone in the streets, the housemaid is sent on errands at any hour of the evening with a freedom at which our city domestics would quite rebel; and one has to stay but a short time in Paris to see how entirely limited to a class is the alleged restraint under which young French girls are said to be kept.
— from Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Solyman had early learnt the art of government as Viceroy of Constantinople during his father’s campaigns in Persia; then, during the war in Egypt, he governed Adrianople, and succeeded at the age of twenty-six.
— from The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe by B. Granville (Bernard Granville) Baker

I—I guess that’s what they mean when they talk of camp spirit,” he ended lamely; “thinkin’ about the good of the crowd instead of just showin’ off for your own benefit.
— from Camp Lenape on the Long Trail by Carl Saxon

"I don't know when I've seen her expand like this and seem really to be forgetting her cares and sorrows."
— from Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

10 And seldom hath ear listened to a tune More lulling than the busy hum of Noon, Sworn by that voice—whose murmur musical Announces to the thirsty fields a boon Dewy and fresh, till showers again shall fall.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

Before the ship had even left the atmosphere he rammed in the subspace control.
— from Faithfully Yours by Lou Tabakow

She had even learnt to admire some gracious quality in them both, for which she could find no name.
— from Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

She would shut her eyes, like this, and row ten more strokes—just ten more.
— from Judith Lynn: A Story of the Sea by Annie Hamilton Donnell