"By the way," said Eleanor, "it has just occurred to me that we ought to keep any photographs we have of our parents safely locked away.
— from The Rebellion of Margaret by Geraldine Mockler

Clara Kingscott, when Mrs Hartshorne sent her away from The Poplars in that ignominious manner, telling her she did not require her services any further, was more than half inclined not to prosecute her design against Markworth in revealing her share in inducing Susan to go away with him, out of pure spite against the old dowager.
— from Caught in a Trap by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

But he seldom complained unless in pain, and would lie for hours on the old bed, watching the flies, which were his only other playmates, stretching out his little hands to the few rays of sunshine that crept in now and then, as if longing for them, like a flower in a cellar.
— from Lulu's Library, Volume 3 (of 3) by Louisa May Alcott

"Ethne wrote to you at Wadi Halfa out of pity," she went on, "that was all.
— from The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

He marvelled at himself how he had not, At first forthputting of that impudence, Stormed the wretch dumb, with hurricane outburst Of passionate scorn; a quick revulsion then, And Saul was chafing that he had so far Grace of rebuff vouchsafed, and honest heat, To creature lacking natural sense to feel Repudiation.
— from The Epic of Saul by William Cleaver Wilkinson

At the river we found we had overshot our party, so we had to follow the river up to find their encampment.
— from Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills by William Landsborough

We had only one paid stenographer—little Anna Lifshiz, who soon became far more a co-worker than a secretary.
— from Margaret Sanger: an autobiography. by Margaret Sanger