“Here,” he said to her, “you run on and tell him.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

One early minister "did not love sleepers in ye meeting-house, and would stop short in ye exercise and call pleasantlie to wake ye sleepers, and once of a warm Summer afternoon he did take hys hat off from ye pegg in ye beam, and put it on, saying he would go home and feed his fowles and come back again, and maybe their sleepe would be ended, and they readie to hear ye remainder of hys discourse."
— from Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle

You are too far from the help you rely on, and you will be lost before it can reach you.
— from The Peasant and the Prince by Harriet Martineau

The Ozites could hardly keep their eyes off the seven-armed Goat Girl, the handsome young ruler of Keretaria and his Royal Ox.
— from Handy Mandy in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson

“Are you going to have your room of any decided color,” asked Miss Graham.
— from Ethel Morton at Sweetbrier Lodge by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

About a week after this letter was written, Kate said to Harry: "You really ought to have Aunt Matilda's roof mended.
— from What Might Have Been Expected by Frank Richard Stockton

Allston, writing to Dunlap in 1834, said: "I rejoice to hear your report of Morse's advance in his art.
— from Inventors by Philip Gengembre Hubert

"My daughter," said Mr. Clifford, as he was fondly bidding her good-night, "how sweetly you have fulfilled the hopes you raised one year ago!"
— from Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe