Jason’s Quest By D. O. S. Lowell , A. M., M. D. Master in Roxbury Latin School Illustrated $1.00 Nothing can be better to arouse the imagination of boys and girls, and at the same time store in their minds knowledge indispensable to any one who would be known as cultured, or happier than Professor Lowell’s way of telling a story, and the many excellent drawings have lent great spirit to the narrative.
— from When I Was a Boy in Japan by Sakae Shioya

Perhaps he would say, ‘Look at me, my darling’; perhaps his delicious joking ways would even at this sublimest of moments still assert themselves and he would say ‘Peep-o!’
— from An Autumn Sowing by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

And more so in the shire of Dumfries than in Galloway, where the muirs are broader, the King's arm not so long, and men more desperately dour to drive.
— from The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

But goode folk, over al other, She loved as man may do his brother; Of whiche love she was wonder large, In skilful places that bere charge.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

Does it seem absurd to say that, in order to study life, a man must die?
— from Beyond by Henry Seward Hubbard

Jason's Quest By D. O. S. Lowell , A. M., M. D. Illustrated Nothing can be better to arouse the imagination of boys and girls, and at the same time store in their minds knowledge indispensable to any one who would be known as cultured, or happier than Professor Lowell's way of telling a story, and the many excellent drawings have lent great spirit to the narrative.
— from What Happened to Inger Johanne, as Told by Herself by Dikken Zwilgmeyer

When Frederigo had heard the Ladies request, which was now quite out of his power to graunt, because it had bene her service at dinner: he stood like a man meerely dulled in his sences, the teares trickling amaine downe his cheekes: and he not able to utter one word.
— from The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio

She's larger and much more definite, if you know
— from Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School by Dorothy Whitehill