Then the uncle sang a French song, and cried, "Hurrah!
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

My lady Betty, stretching rounded limbs luxuriously, yawned again and having nothing particular to look at, closed her eyes; but, almost immediately she opened them rather wider than usual, and sat up suddenly as, from somewhere amid the gusty dark outside, a loud voice hailed, a pistol cracked and the coach pulled up with a jerk.
— from Our Admirable Betty: A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

Mamma told us such a funny story about a kittie she had when she was a little girl.
— from Harper's Young People, May 3, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

The above is all very good and sensible, but our cotemporary is really silly enough to quote an obsolete instrument called the Constitution of the United States, about “free speech,” abridging the press, redress of grievances, etc., etc.
— from Experience of a Confederate States Prisoner Being an Ephemeris Regularly Kept by an Officer of the Confederate States Army by Beckwith West

It seemed to her that if he were here she could go out with him into this brilliant moonlight, seat herself upon some ancient fallen stone, and let him kneel in front of her and gaze and gaze in his persistent way, as much as he pleased.
— from The Rosary by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay

The Maori believes that, after death, his soul enters the Reinga, or abode of departed spirits; and, with an unwonted touch of poetry, he looks upon shooting and falling stars as souls passing swiftly to this undiscovered bourne; the entrance to which he supposes to lie beneath a precipice at Cape Maria Van Diemen.
— from Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

This book is designed to make the reader acquainted with [Pg vii] the common spiders most likely to be found over a large part of the United States as far south as Georgia and as far west as the Rocky Mountains.
— from The Common Spiders of the United States by J. H. (James Henry) Emerton

[Pg 54] Hab. Pacific coast of United States, as far south as Sacramento, and Fort Tejon? north to Kodiak (and Unalaschka?).
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

He lives all over northern North America, and in the United States as far south as Georgia.
— from Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897 by Various