But it was great business for Harry and Nigger and Baby, the two blacks and the gray that pull old 29, and there they were at the first tap, breasting the rubber-bound stall chains as if to hurry up laggard electricity, which presently shot its sparks and loosed their fastenings.
— from Careers of Danger and Daring by Cleveland Moffett

She met Estelle at her home, on López Cotilla, a tiled house under lofty eucalyptus.
— from When the Owl Cries by Paul Alexander Bartlett

Could you overlook this horrid unconventionality long enough for me to explain why I have spoken to you?"
— from The Tracer of Lost Persons by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

This the Cardinalist was reported to have uttered loudly enough to reach the ears of some of the gentlemen, who repeated it among themselves with wrath and indignation.
— from Prince and Heretic by Marjorie Bowen

“But we consider the farm-house, the stacks, and the buildings, picturesque objects in the distance, and we could not desire to have near us more respectable, worthy people than the Hargraves,” urged Lady Elverston.
— from The Rival Crusoes by William Henry Giles Kingston

Lord Kerry tells me that his uncle left everything in ruin,—trees cut down, and rooms unfurnished,—and sold the library, which was extremely fine.
— from Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1 by George Otto Trevelyan

You'd have to have union labor entirely behind you——" "We can make 'em endorse him!"
— from Mountain: A Novel by Clement Wood

The Jesuit is a Christian produced to his utmost logical extremity.
— from Lola Montez: An Adventuress of the 'Forties by Edmund B. (Edmund Basil) D'Auvergne