It was in a round hand, unlike her flowing style, and it was directed to a number and street in Georgetown:— “A Lady at Senator Dilworthy’s would like to see Col. George Selby, on business connected with the Cotton Claims.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

The scout is given a letter addressed to the "Military Commandant" (usually the lady of the house that he gets to) of any given place a mile or two away.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The sea is green and luminous, and all the characters except 42 the Red Man and the Black Men are dressed in various shades of green, one or two with touches of purple which look nearly black.
— from The Green Helmet and Other Poems by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

[1157] Johnson, thirty-four years earlier, wrote:—'I think there is some reason for questioning whether the body and mind are not so proportioned that the one can bear all that can be inflicted on the other; whether virtue cannot stand its ground as long as life, and whether a soul well principled will not be separated sooner than subdued.'
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell

She writes: In the Basilikon Doron, King James I of England writes to his son: "And I would, also, advise you to write in your own language; for there is nothing left to be said in Greek and Latin already—and besides that, it best becometh a King to purify and make famous his own tongue."
— from Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Volume 01 October-March, 1912-13 by Various

For why may mass be said in Greek and Latin and Hebrew, and not also in German or in any other language?[75] [Sidenote: Fraternal Advice to the Priests] Let the priests, therefore, who in these corrupt and perilous times offer the sacrifice of the mass, take heed, first, that the words of the greater and the lesser canon[76] together with the collects, which smack too strongly of sacrifice, be not referred by them to the sacrament, but to the bread and wine which they consecrate, or to the prayers which they say.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther

The soil is good and light, and that is no small thing to be thankful for in the very centre of England, when the nearest seaside golf is as far off as the coast of Wales.
— from The Golf Courses of the British Isles by Bernard Darwin

Tom stepped inside, got a lantern and lighted it, placing it upon the porch table.
— from The Young Engineers on the Gulf Or, The Dread Mystery of the Million Dollar Breakwater by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

" 'Now,' said I, 'go and lay a brick on the sidewalk, at the corner of Broadway and Ann Street; another close by the Museum; a third diagonally across the way, at the corner of Broadway and Vesey Street, by the Astor House; put down the fourth on the sidewalk, in front of St. Paul's Church opposite; then, with the fifth brick in hand, take up a rapid march from one point to the other, making the circuit, exchanging your brick at every point, and say nothing to any one.' " 'What is the object of this?' inquired the man. " 'No matter,' I replied: 'all you need to know is that it brings you fifteen cents wages per hour.
— from A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum by Joel Benton

So I guess as long as I live I'll hev to stay down here."
— from The Sea Fairies by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum