A fresh light showed her, still motionless; her back was up, not in the ordinary ridge, but in patches here and there; she was looking at something behind me; she made her mouth as round as a shilling, held up her white throat, and howled, thinly and carefully, as if she were keening.
— from In Mr. Knox's Country by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

He had, he said, 'observed to Johnson that the petition lead us not into temptation ought rather to be addressed to the tempter of mankind than a benevolent Creator.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

She was generally presented to us in some such words as these: "Let us now introduce to our readers the fair Madeline of Rokewood.
— from The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities by Stephen Leacock

Let us nail it to our radical program that the postal savings bank is to fight for business, just as do the private banks, and lend its funds direct to the people on good security.
— from The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair