On Friday evenings the big, fire-lighted livingroom was crowded by callers and echoed to endless jest and laughter, while Aunt Jamesina smiled beamingly on them all.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

But when he had subjoined also, how in the days of the Emperor Julian a law was made, whereby Christians were forbidden to teach the liberal sciences or oratory; and how he, obeying this law, chose rather to give over the wordy school than Thy Word, by which Thou makest eloquent the tongues of the dumb; he seemed to me not more resolute than blessed, in having thus found opportunity to wait on Thee only.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He was apprenticed in youth to a bookseller at Sydney and after a time came to England, joined a large and important firm of booksellers, and became an expert.
— from The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts

His "Discourses on Painting," delivered at the Royal Academy, were remarkable for their excellent judgment and literary skill.
— from English Painters, with a Chapter on American Painters by H. J. (Harry John) Wilmot-Buxton

So you can talk English just a little bit?
— from The Pony Rider Boys in Montana; Or, The Mystery of the Old Custer Trail by Frank Gee Patchin

A cloud of black smoke issuing from the second floor of a dwelling located the fire, and Ninety-four's tender was making a run for the nearest hydrant, passing the engine just as 'Lish Davis slackened speed.
— from An Amateur Fireman by James Otis

The manageress may “know her at home,” and do everything she can for her; but she cannot be unjust to others, and your daughter must dress in the same room with the “extras,” just as Lord Tomnoddy, should he choose to take the Queen's shilling, must put up with the other privates in barracks.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, March 1885 by Various

And He stopped the Southern movement all the more perfectly by permitting Great Britain to emancipate Jamaica, and letting that experiment prove, as it has, a perfect failure and a terrible warning.
— from Slavery Ordained of God by F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Ross

We Page fifteen remove the blossoms from the everbearers just as late as we possibly can, but during the fall they blossom so profusely that this would require a small army.
— from Kellogg's Great Crops of Strawberries, and How to Grow Them the Kellogg Way by R. M. Kellogg Co.