A bright light appeared upon the sky, moving swiftly.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 by Various

If extraordinarily skilful, strong, and brave, he might hold his own and save his life; at least he might destroy some of his foes, and, falling like a warrior, avoid being laid alive upon the sacrificial stone, where his heart, torn out of his breast, must be held up, a bleeding sacrifice to the fierce god of battles.
— from Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867 by Sara Yorke Stevenson

He did not sleep again but lay awake until the stars began to fade in the gray light of dawn.
— from A Gentleman of Courage: A Novel of the Wilderness by James Oliver Curwood

There are thousands of people busy as bees, loading and unloading the steamboats, rolling barrels and boxes.
— from My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Charles Carleton Coffin

May there not be a naturall reason rendred hereof, that they should impose the names {151} sooner upon daughters than sonnes: for that females grow apace, are quickly ripe, and come betimes unto their perfection in comparison of males; but as touching those precise daies, they take them that immediatly follow the seventh: for that the seventh day after children be borne is very dangerous, as well for other occasions, as in regard of the navill-string: for that in many it will unknit and be loose againe upon the seventh day, and so long as it continueth so resolved and open, an infant resembleth a plant rather than any animall creature?
— from Plutarch's Romane Questions With dissertations on Italian cults, myths, taboos, man-worship, aryan marriage, sympathetic magic and the eating of beans by Plutarch