We were always hunting up new claims and doing a little work on them and then waiting for a buyer—who never came.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

His game was upon numbers, columns, and dozens, all at the same time, increas
— from The Guests Of Hercules by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

And you must go into the country to-morrow morning, and spend your whole vacation there.... Leave orders for your magazines and journals of all kinds to be held here, tell your friends they are to write you under no circumstances, and don't dare to come back to town on any errand whatsoever.
— from The Unpopular Review Vol. I January-June 1914 by Various

This state of affairs continued until night came and darkness settled down over the Caribbean Sea, and then Captain Semmes himself did something that caused the heart of every one of the Sabine's crew to beat high with hope.
— from Marcy the Blockade Runner by Harry Castlemon

Not only in trade, but in colonization also, the Russians have been building up new cities and developing old ones under their exclusive policy with an unheard-of rapidity.
— from The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues by Kan'ichi Asakawa

Of the actual size of the town, modern research gives us no clear and definite notion.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4: Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

After several years, during which the modest Diana had uttered no complaint, Anne declared himself; and shortly afterwards Honoré, as we have noticed, married Diana.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

Our adversaries have us now clearly at disadvantage on the second Wednesday of February, when the votes should be officially counted.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 by Abraham Lincoln