We intended to have embarked early this morning and to have launched upon an element more congenial with our habits than the freshwater navigations with their numerous difficulties and impediments which we had hitherto encountered, but which was altogether new to our Canadian voyagers.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

"Why, what is this?" he exclaimed, eying her sharply.
— from Through the Wall by Cleveland Moffett

The whole Company of the Rosy Hours seemed to have melted into the air, and I began to wonder if they had ever existed.
— from Greenmantle by John Buchan

You want in this House every element that obtains the respect and engages the interest of the country....
— from Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas by Walter Sichel

“Arrah, how was that, Masther?” “Tim, you see, went in to his Entrance Examinayshuns, and one of the Fellows came to examine him, but divil a long it was till Tim sacked him.
— from The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

Worthy of note was it that he enunciated every word distinctly and pronounced it correctly, in great contrast to many other stars, who sometimes mangle speech in a most distressing manner.
— from Frank Merriwell's New Comedian; Or, The Rise of a Star by Burt L. Standish

[Pg 32] “It is not my custom to strip before I go to bed,” replied the Conqueror; “and as long as I live, I will not divide my native realm, Normandy, with another, for it is written in the holy evangelists, ‘Every kingdom divided against itself shall become desolate.’”
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss