He writes in the same strain and for the same object to Professor Yandell, of Kentucky, adding: "In this respect the State of Kentucky is one of the most important of the Union, not only on account of the many rivers which pass through its territory, but also because it is one of the few States the fishes of which have been described by former observers, especially by Rafinesque in his "Ichthyologia Ohioensis," so that a special knowledge of all his original types is a matter of primary importance for any one who would compare the fishes of the different rivers of the West. .
— from Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz

But I will call your attention to what is thought of it in your own Kentucky and in your native Virginia.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

That skin must have been yours, oh king, and if you wish I will sent an hundred of my gulls to the city to bring it back to you." "Let them go!" said the king, gruffly.
— from American Fairy Tales by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

and very grateful for your offered kindness; and, indeed, so anxious to express their gratitude—that—that I shortened my visit and came away immediately to tell you."
— from Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Only once or twice in five years of knocking about in the interior have I heard of giraffe of nineteen feet."
— from The Gold Kloof by H. A. (Henry Anderson) Bryden

If you only knew, as I do, how he is being fooled, you would understand my earnestness—you have long ago forgiven my intrusion.
— from A Gray Eye or So. In Three Volumes—Volume II by Frank Frankfort Moore

"Go back to your own kind and I will go on, alone. Don't stop to talk any more. Go now!" Rhoda turned and looked at Cesca squatting by the horses, at Molly hovering near by with anxious eyes.
— from The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert by Honoré Morrow

"Ah, if you only knew all I have done this blessed day!"
— from 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance by Ossip Schubin