much he liked having her all to himself after dinner each night, Charlotte had begged her lover not to come to see her at this particular time.
— from How It All Came Round by L. T. Meade

The sun was far down on the horizon, and disappeared every now and then behind a hill; still the geese kept forging ahead.
— from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf

She maintained that the children who worked at the looms ten hours a day expressed no discontent; it kept them off the streets; and the operators, in the kindness of their hearts, had actually had the looms made especially to accommodate conveniently the diminutive size of the little workers.
— from A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. by Eugene A. (Eugene Arthur) Hecker

With this instrument she swept the heavens, and discovered eight new comets, in regard to five of which she was the first discoverer.
— from Model Women by William Anderson

I have many visions about that country, and fancy I see twenty empires and republics forming upon vast scales over all that continent, which is growing too mighty to be kept in subjection to half a dozen exhausted nations in Europe.
— from Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole

Why, then, he asks, do European nations [44] maintain them?
— from Historical and Political Essays by William Edward Hartpole Lecky