Fate, who always does her work handsomely, sent up the same staircase within the same hour The Infant, fresh from Upper Burma, and he and Boileau looking out of my window saw walking in the street one Nevin, late in a Goorkha regiment which had been through the Black Mountain Expedition.
— from Soldiers Three - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling

One day I found these words underlined in a book left open on my table.
— from The Dangerous Age: Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary by Karin Michaëlis

[Pg 68] “I believe there’s a bolt left out of me somewhere,” she said, as they left the school-house together; “what do you suppose it is?”
— from Gypsy Breynton by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

One is the face of a drunkard, round and blotched, leering out of misty eyes at the passers-by; the next has the crumpled features of a miser, worn out with toil and moil; a third has the wild scowl of a maniac; and a fourth the stare of an idiot.
— from A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

A vedette or two were trotting up and down along a ridge, keeping a bright lookout on our movements, and through the glass we perceived them flapping their hands under their armpits, as London cabmen do on a cold night when waiting for a fare.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

These are held closed by a transverse bar L inserted at its end into a stirrup l′ and supported at its other end by a button l , or other means.
— from A Practical Handbook on the Distillation of Alcohol from Farm Products by F. B. (Frederic B.) Wright

He's always been like one of my own creatures to me—" and she confounded Odo by bursting into tears.
— from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton

Further, the fire of a big line of one mile in length cannot be directed, whereas a battery can be switched on and off, or so many degrees to a flank, and so on, by a simple command.
— from Our Cavalry by Michael Frederic Rimington