Serezha introduced me, and the three of us rode off together....
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I will not stop here to inquire whose duty it was—whether that of the white ex-master who had profited by unpaid toil, or the Northern philanthropist whose persistence brought on the crisis, or the National Government whose edict freed the bondmen; I will not stop to ask whose duty it was, but I insist it was the duty of some one to see that these workingmen were not left alone and unguided, without capital, without land, without skill, without economic organization, without even the bald protection of law, order, and decency,—left in a great land, not to settle down to slow and careful internal development, but destined to be thrown almost immediately into relentless and sharp competition with the best of modern workingmen under an economic system where every participant is fighting for himself, and too often utterly regardless of the rights or welfare of his neighbor.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

And the same set of ideas which operated among the Celts to create their Fairy-Mythology—ideas arising out of a belief in or knowledge of the one universal Realm of Spirit and its various orders of invisible inhabitants—gave the Egyptians, the Indians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Teutons, the Mexicans, the Peruvians, and all nations their respective mythologies and religions; and we moderns are literally ‘the heirs of all the ages’.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

At one point the line where woods and dunes meet stands out clearly and there are indicated the rude things, vines, bushes, which form the outer uneven rim of the woods—the only things that grow in the sand.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

XLI THE RETURN OF THE MAGI How they did laugh, when mounting our camels Three of us rode, obeying the light; Slowly we cut our hearts from the trammels Doubt flung around us that first wistful night.
— from The Dark Ages, and Other Poems by L.

and he held this office until removed on Jackson's accession to the presidency.
— from Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men by Various

I may also, dear reader, request you to accompany me to other undiscovered realms of Plutusia, where, according to report, exist fairy-lands, peopled with strange, fantastic races of men and women, as well as fabulous animals, with characteristics surpassing the wildest dreams of fancy.
— from The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw

To you it seemed the right thing—to me it seemed certainly hard—but no more nor less than taking up the old unhappy routine of life, where I had left it when I quitted her.
— from At Fault by Kate Chopin

Elma made a gesture of renewed hope, and all three of us redoubled our pace, expecting every moment to come upon some log hut, the owner of which would surely give us hospitality for the night.
— from The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love by William Le Queux

March 14th.—Two of us rode out this afternoon to kill time until dinner hour (six); but, when we returned to our quarters, there was not a vestige of the regiment remaining, and our appetites were considerably whetted, by having an additional distance of fourteen miles to ride, in the dark, over roads on which we could not trust our horses out of a walk.
— from Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 by J. (John) Kincaid

This impossible state of things was remedied in 1836, 180 when the duties were converted to one uniform rate of 2s.
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 1 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie

She was dressed after a fashion to bewilder a mere man in the only utterly ravishing outing costume Mark King had ever seen.
— from The Everlasting Whisper by Jackson Gregory

This was not forthcoming, and the matter remained for some time the one unsolved riddle of his lordship's life.
— from The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles by Henry Augustus Hering

He was marshal of the diet in 1764, when the ill-famed liberum veto was abolished, which gave to every deputy, singly, the right of overthrowing the otherwise unanimous resolutions of the diet, and thus was the principal cause of the lawless disorder which disgraced the sessions of that body.
— from Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations With a Sketch of Their Popular Poetry by Talvj