One year the parent would come with the long hair of one who, having been brother to the red Indian for years, has wormed from his medicine man the choicest secret of his mysterious pharmacopæia, and who would out of love for suffering humanity place this within the reach of all for a nominal consideration.
— from The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson

Drawing himself up proudly, without the scornful look which one of less fine sensibility might have thrown at her in similar circumstances, he gave his calm and dignified explanation with the air of a true prince.
— from The Old Flute-Player: A Romance of To-day by Charles Turner Dazey

There was only one little faint sound above her—in some tree, she thought.
— from The Sagebrusher: A Story of the West by Emerson Hough

Of course," with a wave of one long finger, "some governments have more of these state secrets than others; the Italian republics probably were in the lead; the United States I should place almost last."
— from Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent by John Thomas McIntyre

We owe our landlady fifteen shillings.”
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete by Various

Wings of ordinary length, first, second, and third quills longest, the secondaries notched at the tip.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

It left us with this barren waste with only occasional lowland fertile spots which now by heredity we rulers control, each to possess his own.
— from The White Invaders by Ray Cummings

THE WORDS OF OUR LIPS ( Fifth Sunday after Trinity ) 1 S. PETER iii. 10.
— from The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles by H. J. (Harry John) Wilmot-Buxton