"I shall look on Captain Keith with great interest now.
— from A Sister of the Red Cross: A Tale of the South African War by L. T. Meade

More words of Chinese like pebbles rattling over stones and falling into water flowed from the singsong lips of Chuan Kai.
— from The Mark of the Knife by Clayton H. (Clayton Holt) Ernst

And this was the Professor's letter, which had evidently set the aldermanic machine to grinding doggerel again: " On the Solomon, } Lindsey, Ottawa County, Kansas. } ...
— from Buffalo Land Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West by W. E. (William Edward) Webb

They all go to the making of a man—calling out that God-dependence in him which is the only true self-dependence, the only true strength .”—Letters of Charles Kingsley.
— from Wayfaring Men: A Novel by Edna Lyall

Certain critics have seized and worked upon this, as proving Shakespeare's lack of classical knowledge, or carelessness in the use of his authorities.
— from The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by William Shakespeare

He had a most efficient coadjutor in caring for his prisoners, and separating them so far from their thrown down rifles as to remove any temptation they might have to pick them up again when they should realize how small a force they had surrendered to, for he had promptly appointed Sergeant Locke, of Company K, as his Provost.
— from Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry Volunteers With a Sketch of Its Services in the War of the Rebellion by Albert Maxfield