Into these she did not enter, but contented herself with pacing up and down the hall, and looking from the windows at the wintry March landscape, until Prosperity came up the staircase and spoke to her between the railings.
— from Deficient Saints: A Tale of Maine by Marshall Saunders

Our ignorance of the whole scheme makes us poor critics upon the small part that comes within our limited perceptions.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

[ 356 ] If found correct, please to enter accordingly Cun uala unta sayop, isulat mo cana ing̃on sa pagcaoyon We have not yet had leisure to examine the accounts Uala pa came ug tiempo sa pagsusi sa
— from Mga Paquigpulong sa Iningles ug Binisaya by Gregorio de Santiago Vela

As late indeed as 1872, in a deliverance of the United Presbyterian Church upon the subject of instrumental music in public worship, this jealousy of simplicity in worship hitherto enjoyed is evident.
— from Presbyterian Worship: Its Spirit, Method and History by Robert Johnston

"Aunt Charlotte, when is Uncle Paul coming up to see me?
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Shakspere at the age of forty-six, long after he had portrayed the real insanity of Lear, the simulated insanity of Hamlet, the confessional dream of Lady Macbeth; long after he had "filled the audience with surprise and delight" by the romantic realities of Hero and Portia, of Viola and Rosalind; years after he had anticipated the heroic "romance" in the romantic adventures of Marina; long after he had depicted the heroic triumph of Isabella over the lustful Angelo—this man, Shakspere, condescended to imitate a youth of twenty-two, whose name was Beaumont, to steal from him much of the plot, characters, action, and denouement of "Philaster" and to make the theft more open and unblushing, presented "Cymbeline" upon the same stage within a year of the original "type," and assigned the parts to the same actors who had won remarkable popular
— from The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant by Francis Asbury Smith