I have got accustomed to hear you talking about men as rotters, and calling everything filthy and beastly; though I do think it horrible and unladylike.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

They all made a rush and caught hold of her arms just as she was being slowly drawn down lower, and when they dragged her nearer the shore, whatever it was that held her yielded a little, though it still hung on to the poor girl; while as they got her nearer a shriek rose, and every one nearly let go, for the head of a big snake was drawn right out of the water, but at the next snatch it loosed its hold and dropped back with a splash.”
— from Rob Harlow's Adventures: A Story of the Grand Chaco by George Manville Fenn

I know that they buy seats in railway carriages and theatres, and meals at restaurants, and cravats of the new colour, and shares in companies, for they talk about their purchases, and rise into ecstasies of praise or blame concerning them.
— from Books and Persons; Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett

"I do not expect myself," said he, "to speak at any great length, but yet if upon careful consideration I should choose to do so, or if possessing the recollections of past times and memories and reasons and considerations that yet lay in my hidden memories I shall choose to talk for a longer period, I shall claim the right to do so."
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

So many persons have applied for instruction, that as many are received as can be taught conveniently, each paying $25 yearly tuition fee.
— from Famous Givers and Their Gifts by Sarah Knowles Bolton

An excellent example of shading is given in Figure 296, which is extracted from the American Machinist , and represents a cutting tool for a planing machine.
— from Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Comprising instructions in the selection and preparation of drawing instruments, elementary instruction in practical mechanical drawing; together with examples in simple geometry and elementary mechanism, including screw threads, gear wheels, mechanical motions, engines and boilers by Joshua Rose

Bobby thought that he could trace a lot of things in the porter's tone and manner, a respect and commiseration for Mr. Mudd and perhaps not quite such a high respect for himself and Simon.
— from The Man Who Found Himself (Uncle Simon) by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

He was opposed to going without his dinner and supper, and he did not believe that a man as reasonable as Captain Gildrock would ask such a sacrifice of him.
— from All Taut; or, Rigging the boat by Oliver Optic

W ASHINGTON TAKING COMMAND OF THE A MERICAN A RMY AT C AMBRIDGE .
— from The Beginner's American History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery