Not a word or look from either Sir James, or his lady, led anyone to think that three extra visitors were thrust upon the hospitable family, nor did any hint escape them that the unexpected guests were other than socially their equals.
— from Polly and Her Friends Abroad by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Pare and core, without splitting, some small-sized tart apples, and boil them very gently with one lemon for every six apples, till a straw will pass through them.
— from Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book Designed as a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic Economy by Catharine Esther Beecher

A big hawk, not the kind, good fish-hawk, but another kind, who was out looking for early spring chickens, swooped down and tried to carry Susie Littletail off to his nest.
— from Sammie and Susie Littletail by Howard Roger Garis

In the conversations taken down by Mathesius in the ‘forties Luther’s weariness of life finds even stronger expression, nor are the words in which he describes it of the choicest: “I have had enough of the world and it, too, has had enough of me; with this I am well content.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar