She’s polite, always, dear old Helena—she says, here, ‘So pleasant is our journey in every way, and so kind have you gentlemen been, and so thoughtful in providing every luxury, that I can not think of a single thing I could ask for except some more marshmallows.
— from The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Emerson Hough

We have already seen abundant grounds for believing, that Values arise from human services rendered and received: is it at all likely, considering the nature of scientific generalization and the history of all the more advanced sciences, that in Political Economy, lands and their produce should be found to constitute an outlying exception to the law of all other valuable things?
— from Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry

sublimated to its purest element, lieth here enclosed for the endowment of whomsoever we shall choose.”
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss

Netting [14] (1939:127) likewise states that in Pennsylvania E. laticeps inhabits drier places than does fasciatus , and is largely arboreal.
— from Life History and Ecology of the Five-Lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

He was so tender in preserving every line of individuality that He would not shackle freedom of growth in His disciples, even by prolonging His own companionship and instruction beyond the proper time.
— from Pastor Pastorum; Or, The Schooling of the Apostles by Our Lord by Henry Latham