Hurrying on to make up lost time, I soon reached Morgan.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

and I went to Mr. Battersby’s the minister, in my way I putting in at St. Paul’s, where I saw the quiristers in their surplices going to prayers, and a few idle poor people and boys to hear them, which is the first time I have seen them, and am sorry to see things done so out of order, and there I received L50 more, which make up L100 that I now have borrowed of him, and so I did burn the old bond for L50, and paying him the use of it did make a new bond for the whole L100.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He can’t escape my men once I start them searching for him and the price he’ll pay for trussing me up like this——” “It’s worth a goodly price to show you how a truss-up feels,” Pape interrupted.
— from Lonesome Town by E. S. (Ethel Smith) Dorrance

If a song, or piece of music, should call up only a faint remembrance that we were happy the last time we heard it, nothing more would be needful to make us listen to it again with peculiar satisfaction.
— from Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 by Thomas Hanly Ball

Now, though the Little Tree was straight as an arrow and had glossy green leaves, she was the most unhappy little tree in all the world.
— from The Green Forest Fairy Book by Loretta Ellen Brady

"I don't want to be disagreeable, but I can't think of anything that gives you the right to come and knock me up like this in the middle of the night."
— from The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit

It is not thus that the British nation is to become respectable; we may have relations of trade with these people, but we must be content to be merely regarded according to our utility; there can be no respect for our general character as a body of men, none of that regard which would make us listened to in any great question, which would make our opinions and our assertions depended upon as coming from men of steadiness,—of religious habits.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster

Each carried a most unattractive lunch tied in a flour sack behind the cantle of his saddle.
— from The Quirt by B. M. Bower

Among the rest my child, the light of my eyes, has been more unwell lately than I ever saw him in his life, and we were forced three times to call in a physician.
— from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

As we have accepted that high trust, so make us loyal to it.
— from Marm Lisa by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin