Frank, in the manner usual with boys, carried home so exaggerated a story of William's damages, that Jane expected to see him arrive half-killed.
— from Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

They literally overran him, and when he died, in 1880, he was without any means whatever; but California has since erected a handsome statue to his memory.
— from A New History of the United States The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year by Charles Morris

But her mother would be coming home soon, even though she would be unable to work; and both knew that the wild ecstasy would end with her return.
— from Coquette by Frank Swinnerton

The term “farmyard manure” is common of application, but an English farmer would look at it in amazement and not know his good old friend again, for the Egyptian farmyard manure seems to have been invented by the sanitarians of our dry earth system, being composed of desiccated Nile mud which has been carefully spread over the floors of the cattle-sheds as litter wherever bullocks, cows, horses, sheep, etc., are kept.
— from The Khedive's Country by George Manville Fenn

“He will be coming himself,” said Ermine, resolved against again expressing a doubt; while Alison added that he hated letter-writing.
— from The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

A fine young brood of white Brahma chickens, having surreptitiously effected an entrance into the sacred precincts of the flower-garden, were now diligently prosecuting their experiments in entomotomy right in the heart of a border of choice carnations.
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

At the armourer's in St. Nicholas' Street he carefully selected a stout and heavy broadsword, a pair of pistols, and a petronel, while a breastplate, tassettes, and a steel cap with barrets completed his soldierly equipment.
— from The Young Cavalier: A Story of the Civil Wars by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

These are interspersed with a number of philoprogenitive letters to Lady Clarke,—her Ladyship's sister,—in which, being childless herself, she expends all her bottled-up maternity on her nephews and nieces.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various