"Are you up, Newton?" asked Mr. Emberg of a reporter in the far corner of the room.
— from Larry Dexter's Great Search; Or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire by Howard Roger Garis

Heretofore she was ever gratifying herself and her friends by undertaking new and more elaborate pieces, not one of which ever became other than a mere superficial possession.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various

Let's see; you will have the shop to sweep out, the window shutters to take down and put up, night and morning, errands to run, sewing, washing, ironing, and scrubbing to do, dishes to wash, beside a few other little things.
— from Rose Clark by Fanny Fern

It was literally true, as he said, that he 'had a home in every farmhouse.' To his rare good fellowship and his powers of endurance, Scott added one other quality without which his vigorous search for literary material might have been of little use, namely, a most extraordinary memory, which enabled him to retain what he had heard and use it many years afterward.
— from The Country of Sir Walter Scott by Charles S. (Charles Sumner) Olcott

But a woman was not permitted to marry her maternal uncle nor a man either his paternal or maternal aunt.
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman

For you do only by your books, as by your wenches, bind 'em up neatly and make 'em fine, for other people to use 'em.
— from William Wycherley [Four Plays] by William Wycherley

h Ag Culture officially disapproved of the whole cowhand system, and talked grimly of setting up new and more efficient methods for training personnel and handling the cattle ranges, nothing was ever done.
— from This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch

"The Directory see me here with uneasiness, notwithstanding all my efforts to throw myself into the shade.
— from Joseph Bonaparte Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Should he push his explorations further, he will come in contact with the barbarous negro tribes of the upper Nile, and may encounter troops of giraffes and elephants.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various