So, with a great effort, Dorothy stifled her sobs and began to look around her.
— from The Wishing Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson

Mr. Smart would be satisfied with a graduated estate duty with a maximum of 25 per cent, instead of the present maximum of 8 per cent.
— from British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker

At length, Captain Jones said, with a great effort, “Daph, I have something
— from The Babes in the Basket; or, Daph and Her Charge by Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker) Baker

Hundreds of people whom I had never cared a button about, but whom I had been obliged to meet and smile with, “and gladly endure,” dropped instantly out of my life and I never saw them again.
— from The Claw by Cynthia Stockley

Mr. Coleridge lately expressed to me the astonishment he felt, very shortly after his introduction to him, on hearing him maintain an argument upon some abstruse subject with a gentleman equally distinguished for the extent of his erudition, and for the talent of rendering it available for illustration;—the contrast was most striking—it was the fresh and native wild flower, opposed to the elaborate exotic of the Hortus Siccus !
— from The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 1 (of 2) by John Ayrton Paris

She was a good enough duck, but hasty.
— from Red Men and White by Owen Wister

“Come, mister,” he said with a grin, evidently divining my thoughts, “out with it, come; you want them chesties smuggled off on the quiet, don’t you now?
— from The Golden Magnet by George Manville Fenn

If no more than time to replenish stores was allowed, good enough, despite the loss of sales.
— from Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions by William Charles Henry Wood