Within a half hour Pickton and Freddy Perth were frantically working over Gaines' Roadster while that young gentleman rushed rather foolishly and very excitedly about the carriage house in which the machine was kept.
— from The Auto Boys' Quest by James A. (James Andrew) Braden

He saw before him the mother of the small boy he had jumped into the sea to save—at some risk to his own life; and he had forgotten her very existence, and the cordial hopes she had expressed that he would one day see his way to paying them a visit.
— from Harley Greenoak's Charge by Bertram Mitford

Table-linen is very expensive and the careful housekeeper will easily save her salary above that of a careless one by properly taking care of the linen.
— from Guide to Hotel Housekeeping by Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Palmer

The colonel was one of the most prominent men in the county; he had always been very proud and very exclusive, and the county had grown proud of the old aristocrat.
— from The Shadow of a Sin by Charlotte M. Brame

She evinced a brief, but violent emotion; and then controlled her features to a very staid and matronly expression.
— from Rattlin the Reefer by Edward Howard

He could not from their appearance, considered from the time of their eruption, and the early fluidity of their contents after they appeared, see any reason to think them at all variolous, especially as the child had so evidently had the disease from inoculation under his own eyes.
— from The Present Method of Inoculating for the Small-Pox To which are added, some experiments, instituted with a view to discover the effects of a similar treatment in the natural small-pox by Thomas Dimsdale

Where glaciation at the higher levels and vigorous erosion along the canyons have taken place, the former soil cover has been removed; elsewhere it is an important feature.
— from The Andes of Southern Peru Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian by Isaiah Bowman

From very early ages the caraway has been esteemed by cooks and doctors, between which a friendly rivalry might seem to exist, each vying to give it prominence.
— from Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by M. G. (Maurice Grenville) Kains