Cuando la lengua de Castilla se arraigó en la parte meridional de nuestro continente, sus hijos enriquecieron a la madre patria «no menos con los tesoros de su suelo que con sus aventajados talentos que fecundiza el sol ardiente y desarrolla una naturaleza grandiosa y magnífica.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

'But where's the use of it?' exclaimed Sponge; 'it'll do us no good, you know, praisin' Puff's pack, or himself, or anything about him.'
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

Having thus shown you what it is that Davis especially examples, let us now give you briefly such a biography as suits the purpose of this book.
— from The Brothers' War by John C. (John Calvin) Reed

Q. Didn't tell you to make your demands, or what language to use, nor gave you no written summons.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

These desolate and usually neglected grave yards of half forgotten stranger dead became to the superstitious, “hanted places” to be shunned by night, and the favorite site of many a ghost story told by the “black mammy” to the children of her master.
— from Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt

He used no gestures, yet as he went on, the room became still with the stillness of a captured audience.
— from Contrary Mary by Temple Bailey

This was true in a strict sense, for although, as we have seen, the southern and northwestern tribes were in the habit of hunting here as upon neutral ground, yet not a single wigwam had been erected, nor did the land bear the slightest mark of having ever been cultivated.
— from Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer by Cecil B. Hartley

"Where's the drum your uncle Ned gave you?" asked his mother.
— from Sube Cane by Bellamy Partridge