This exorbitant sum soon produced a rival cheaper line—at two dollars and a half a ticket.
— from Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle

Then she produced a regular country lunch, ending with a grape tart, plenty of thick cream, and splendid apples and pears.
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey

There would be his son's pale and romantic corpse lying stately beneath the cloth, with candles and things about.
— from Forward from Babylon by Louis Golding

“But you don’t mean to say that He hears such prayers as rough chaps like me and others aboard here could say?”
— from The History of Little Peter, the Ship Boy by William Henry Giles Kingston