Reinvigorated by our walk we returned in good heart to the inn.
— from Border Ghost Stories by Howard Pease

'The night before Gilmour left Highgate for the Christmas [Pg 38] vacation we were all in his study, when someone, remarking on the risk he was running in going home to Scotland by sea, instead of by train, said in a jocular way: "Suppose the steamer is wrecked and you get drowned, to whom do you leave your books, Gilmour?"
— from James Gilmour of Mongolia: His diaries, letters, and reports by James Gilmour

I have not translated literally, for which reason I give here the actual Latin of Aulus Gellius, for the benefit of those who understand that language (Aul. Gellius, lib. 6, cap.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

And I want every girl and every boy who thinks I was right in giving him the star to clap with all his might.'
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series by James Edmund Dunning

The seas still swarmed with serpentine monsters of the saurian type, and the firmer lands were peopled by huge animals, mastodons, bears, giant tapirs, mylodons, deinotheriums, and a score of other species too strange for them to recognise by any Earthly likeness, which roamed in great herds through the vast twilit forests and over boundless plains covered with grey-blue vegetation.
— from A Honeymoon in Space by George Chetwynd Griffith

So when we did land, we ran in great haste towards where the pinnaces were at anchor, making such speed as if we had been chased by the enemy.
— from With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang

How pitiable, and how respectable, become almost all sovereigns, when we consider them as human beings put in possession of almost superhuman power; and when we reflect in general how they have been brought up, and what a provocative to abuse at all events becomes the possession of a throne!
— from The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events by Leigh Hunt