Meantime, General Young’s cavalry, and the Maccabebee scouts under Major Batson, a lieutenant of the regular army, and a medal-of-honor graduate of the Santiago campaign, were operating to the west of the general line of advance, striking insurgent detachments wherever found and driving them toward the line of the railroad.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

A lawgiver that were all justice should be a scourge unto men; but a lawgiver that were all mercy should be as good as no law.
— from For the Master's Sake: A Story of the Days of Queen Mary by Emily Sarah Holt

Bungay's people are going to bring out a very good book, and have set up Miss Bunyan against Lady Violet.
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

And slept’st upon my bosom all last night.
— from Sonnets of a Budding Bard by Nixon Waterman

"Fine muffins, these!" spoke up Mr. Blake, a little later.
— from The Tangled Threads by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

After pausing a moment, the still unshaken maiden borrowed and lighted a lantern, when, without disclosing her purpose, she left the house and proceeded directly to the end of the string-piece.
— from Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

The messengers I despatched with the first letters quoted, arrived in Assouan some time in January or February, 1889, and delivered the letters to Mankarious Effendi, who at once wrote to my manager, as he had sold up my business, and left for Alexandria.
— from A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years Captivity at Omdurman by Charles Neufeld

“And the young man replied: “‘Fair lady, at a glance I knew, Thy urn and felt thy spirit too, And straight the yearning through me sped, To raise thee from the living dead; I felt thy spell upon my brow, And loved thee as I love thee now.
— from Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland

If the butter be found too strong, use more butter and less of garlic, etc.
— from Hand-Book of Practical Cookery, for Ladies and Professional Cooks Containing the Whole Science and Art of Preparing Human Food by Pierre Blot