The manufacture of earth-salt in the district is now entirely a thing of the past, though in many places the remains of the old modas may still be seen.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

It was seldom the old man made so long a speech, but his son's question had fallen like a bit of dry fuel on the embers of a long unextinguished resentment, which had always made the grandfather more indifferent to Hetty than to his son's children.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Then up and to the office, my mouth still being scabby and a patch on it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"Your sister has just kindly visited me," Amelia wrote in her letter, "and informed me of an INTERESTING EVENT, upon which I beg to offer my MOST SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Then there was Miss Fison, the maid who served both Lady Drew and Miss Somerville, and at the end of the table opposite my mother, sat Rabbits the butler.
— from Tono-Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Some obscure place where the old man may sit and dream away his last days.
— from The Garden of Memories by Henry St. John Cooper

At the time of mounting, my son of prosperous fortune, S͟hāh-Jahān, had brought 20,000 charan , or Rs. 5,000, for the nis̤ār (scattering), and I scattered them as I hastened to the palace.
— from The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 2 of 2) by Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir

"I told you that I hired my time of my master," said he.
— from The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin

The old Medicine Man said, "We don't need your chest pads, and you would not if you took the Sky Medicine."
— from Woodland Tales by Ernest Thompson Seton

"You were the original Midnight Masquer," said Fell in his toneless voice.
— from The Mardi Gras Mystery by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones