Such are the things, indeed, I lay away with my life's rare and blessed bits of hours, reminiscent, past—the wild sea-storm I once saw one winter day, off Fire island—the elder Booth in Richard, that famous night forty years ago in the old Bowery—or Alboni in the children's scene in Norma—or night-views, I remember, on the field, after battles in Virginia—or the peculiar sentiment of moonlight and stars over the great Plains, western Kansas—or scooting up New York bay, with a stiff breeze and a good yacht, off Navesink.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Grand as to-day's accumulative fund of poetry is, there is certainly something unborn, not yet come forth, different from anything now formulated in any verse, or contributed by the past in any land—something waited for, craved, hitherto non-express'd.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

" Who speak thus, do not yet understand Thee, O Wisdom of God, Light of souls, understand not yet how the things be made, which by Thee, and in Thee are made: yet they strive to comprehend things eternal, whilst their heart fluttereth between the motions of things past and to come, and is still unstable.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

So upon New Year's Day, when the service was done, the barons rode unto the field, some to joust and some to tourney, and so it happened that Sir Ector, that had great livelihood about London, rode unto the jousts, and with him rode Sir Kay his son, and young Arthur that was his nourished brother; and Sir Kay was made knight at All Hallowmass afore.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

My dear Fanny—I am sorry to hear you have been so unwell: now you are better, keep so.
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

[35] John Graham Brooks: As Others See Us; New York, 1908, p. 11.
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

“By smashing up New York?
— from The White Invaders by Ray Cummings

"If I should manage to secure the package, by any chance," the professor went on, "I shall undoubtedly need your help in getting away with it.
— from Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers

"Now you may look," cried Roger joyfully, helping Nellie to stand up; "now you may look; for you will see nothing but what it is good for you to see.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

You cannot have the bound "Séraphita" until New Year's day.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

The people were even inclined to refuse to draw anything in the small-liquor line for a man with so little respect for trade as to walk so straight upon New Year's Day.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

By the time the ship sailed up New York harbor, Mr. Morse had not only a good idea of the way to go to work to make a telegraph apparatus, but he had made up the “dot-and-dash code,” now in use in telegraphy.
— from Hero Tales from History by Smith Burnham

"My boy," said Uncle Nathan, "you are now leaving us.
— from Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past by Harriet S. Caswell