In giving up trying to eat REAL MEAT, I have found again a strong stomach.
— from The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by George Sand

Specie, which had got up to the enormous rate of 22 per cent premium, dropped down to 2.
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

“We had better go upstairs to the evening room,” he said.
— from Patience Sparhawk and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

56 In the midst of the heaviest firing, one of General Longstreet's staff officers galloped up to the Eleventh Regiment and called for two companies to go down to the ford.
— from Personal Reminiscences of the War of 1861-5 In Camp—en Bivouac—on the March—on Picket—on the Skirmish Line—on the Battlefield—and in Prison by W. H. (William Henry) Morgan

Gardener up to the Edward Reidses," and McBirney thrilled as if an event had happened.
— from August First by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

On the deck of the steamer stood a group of five persons, three of whom had given utterance to the exclamations recorded above.
— from Frank Merriwell's Nobility; Or, The Tragedy of the Ocean Tramp by Burt L. Standish

Well, I was curious to see the convent where the monks live a life of ease, I suppose to get used to the eternal "rest" which they expect when they get to heaven, of which I have my "doubts."
— from Story of Chester Lawrence Being the Completed Account of One who Played an Important Part in "Piney Ridge Cottage" by Nephi Anderson

As Marguerite had discovered her merits, and distinguished her from her equals, she had been of great use to this extraordinary rustic in unfolding her mind, and guiding her propensities.
— from St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin