The young man seemed in no great hurry, and at the junction of the avenue with the Champs Élysées, Duvall accosted him, speaking in French.
— from The Blue Lights: A Detective Story by Frederic Arnold Kummer

I find myself writing about this time, evidently very homesick:— People tell me I shall like the Service better as I get on, but one gives up home and all its joys for coming to sea, or otherwise for honour; one can do without honour but not without home, besides, why should I not get honour at home as well as at sea?
— from A Middy's Recollections, 1853-1860 by Victor Alexander Montagu

And if you were to go to Buffalo to- day, near the site of that first shipyard (a little farther away from the falls), you would know that the successors of La Salle in new Griffins had actually brought back the golden fleece—the priceless fleece, the fleece of the plains if not of the forests.
— from The French in the Heart of America by John H. (John Huston) Finley

But that, to a man like myself who wants little of the so-called comforts of life, and has, moreover, other sources, is no great hardship, and there are comfortings, sometimes, in unexpected quarters.
— from The Black Colonel by James Milne

She noticed Winston seemed in no great hurry, and instead appeared to be listening absently to the planters.
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

When his wife brought him the coat, she said: “If, now, Gellert had a wife, or a household of his own, one might send him something; but your brother says he is a bachelor, and lives quite alone.”
— from Christian Gellert's Last Christmas From "German Tales" Published by the American Publishers' Corporation by Berthold Auerbach

If I started on an expedition to find moths or hunt squirrels, I never got half a mile beyond the school boundaries, and never, of course, caught the ghost of anything.
— from Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

"Why should I not go home alone?"
— from An Ambitious Woman: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

"Poor old soul, I never gave her any reason to think that I believed her preachings although she has come faithfully every week to visit me.
— from In Kali's Country: Tales from Sunny India by Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets