Now is the occasion to give me five hundred dollars on account of that which you others don't know respect that from then to now you should have kissed my forehead I have been in your store, friend Donate how you respect him he is an ignorant boob, that I bring you others I hope that all will end that when we are alone they give me no peace as I deserve time lost that brings you will know us neither some other of the Mafia in the future will write in the bank where you must send the money without so many stories otherwise you will pay for it."
— from The Barrel Mystery by William J. (William James) Flynn

Dave had been among the busiest, now roping some refractory steer, now helping a cowboy heat the big irons, with their mark "Bar U.", now scudding out of the way on the back of his fleet pony, Crow.
— from Cowboy Dave; Or, The Round-up at Rolling River by Frank V. Webster

The mother's heart was full of joy; Uncle Nep shivered once or twice as he remembered a glimpse he had caught of Glinkomok; but Keo was as jolly as possible, and, not content to swim with his dignified elders, he dived under their bodies, raced all around them and laughed merrily every inch of the way home.
— from American Fairy Tales by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

A residence of nine weeks in the island gave us no small opportunity of testing the reality of its boasted security.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

Apart from immediate needs and uses, no student of our time has known better the solace, the delight, the guidance that abide in great writings.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various

Then some of the good ladies of Scranton have been over trying to convince Matilda that blood isn't thicker than water, and that she is under no sort of obligation to give her wanderer of a brother a shelter, either temporary or permanent, under her little roof."
— from The Chums of Scranton High out for the Pennant or, In the Three Town League by Donald Ferguson

“On the point of breaking up, now?” said one of the company in reply.
— from The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A Tale Illustrative of the Revolutionary History of Vermont and the Northern Campaign of 1777 by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

We have parted, there is no hope, let us never speak of ourselves together again.
— from Latter-Day Sweethearts by Harrison, Burton, Mrs.

"What's up now?" said one of the men.
— from A California Girl by Edward Eldridge

"Say, Unc Neb," said one of them, "we-all's made a pool."
— from In Old Kentucky by Charles Turner Dazey