Unfortunately, (or fortunately,) I had such a good time and rest, and talk and dinner, with the U. boys, that I let the hours slip away and didn't drive over to the meeting and speak my piece.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Now gone, he thinks it long till he see her again, and she him, the clocks are surely set back, the hour's past,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

What they chiefly secure as soon as possible is tobacco and spirits; then provisions and clothing; and then any treasure they may come across, and afterwards any portion of the cargo they may fancy that is light to handle, such as silks, pottery, and so forth."
— from The Death Ship: A Strange Story, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Clark Russell

"You ought to be ashamed of yourself for taking it like that," he said.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 by Martin Andersen Nexø

Ten slave girls—so many blooms— Stand, holding tamarisk torches, Silk-clad from the Irak looms; Ten handmaidens serve the feast, Each maid like a star in the east; Ten lutanists, lutes a-tune, Wait, each like the Ramadan moon.
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 2 (of 5) New world idylls and poems of love by Madison Julius Cawein

"That's the kind of talk I like to hear," said Jack appreciatively.
— from The Fun of Cooking: A Story for Girls and Boys by Caroline French Benton

He had many tales to tell of far-away America, and in increasing numbers the younger men would gather with him at the inn, listening to his stories while he drew them into a friendly game of cards.
— from Against the Current: Simple Chapters from a Complex Life by Edward Alfred Steiner

And then, with his face illumined as with divine fire, he made his final appeal, while he reminded them of the Infinite love that had stooped to save, and that had wrought itself out in the agonies of the cross.
— from The Man from Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa by Ralph Connor