While Hugues played vigorously with his body, stooping, and moving, and stepping aside, but keeping his arm stiff, and using his wrist much, M. le Marquis held his body erect and still, but moved his arm, and, fencing with a school correctness, as if he held a foil, disdained all artifices save those of the weapon.
— from The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman

If this experiment were conducted on a duly extensive scale round London; say at Brixton, Kensington, Holloway and Stepney; there can be no doubt that a cyclone would be established, and the fog effectually dissipated.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 20, 1892 by Various

They drew him to them, and both kissed him, and said that no one had spoken like him; no one, no one.
— from The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel by Selma Lagerlöf

Emily was not yet awake when the time came to say farewell and Bob kissed her as she slept.
— from Ungava Bob: A Winter's Tale by Dillon Wallace

When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes blind With lightning you went from me, and I could find Nothing to make a song about but kings, Helmets, and swords, and half-forgotten things That were like memories of you—but now We’ll out, for the world lives as long ago; 12 And while we’re in our laughing, weeping fit, Hurl helmets, crowns, and swords into the pit.
— from The Green Helmet and Other Poems by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

Tuesday, September 18 .—Warren Smith, Jonas Putnam, Stephen Shumway and D. C. Demming and Joseph {141} Young stopped at Geneva, Morgan county, and in the course of the day, Asaph Blanchard, Stephen Headlock and B. K. Hall also stopped near Exeter, and James C. Snow, whom we found near Geneva, joined us.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3 by Smith, Joseph, Jr.

The variety analyzed by Klaproth had a sapphire-blue colour, and was only translucent 86 on the edges.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson