In a fight, however, his soul enlarged, and he was ever to be found at the front directing his men, and doing much to atone for sins committed during less exciting moments.
— from Bamboo Tales by Ira L. (Ira Louis) Reeves

There is, moreover, in the representation of a human being of the size and colour of life, a certain character of reality, which at first sight cannot do less than make a profound impression on the mind, leaving it for a time in a state of some perplexity between truth and fiction.
— from Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous

Between Guajara-Merim and this fall, inclusive, the Madeira receives the drainage of the northeastern slopes of the Andes, from Santa Cruz de la Sierra to Cuzco, the whole of the south-western slope of Brazilian Matto (irosso and the northern one of the Chiquitos sierras, an area about equal to that of France and Spain.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Cherry happened to be down from his ranch that night; and Becker got wind of what was up and footed it across from Santa Cruz de la Cañada; and word was sent to the Elbogen brothers––they was real clever young fellows, them two Germans––and over they come 75 a-kiting on their buck-board from San Juan.
— from Santa Fé's Partner Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

The windows were shaded against the afternoon sun, but the sky was now overcast, and such a twilight reigned within that at first she could distinguish little, and the drawing-room seemed to her to be empty.
— from The Invader: A Novel by Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa) Woods

The curtains were drawn and at first she could distinguish little.
— from Doris Force at Locked Gates; Or, Saving a Mysterious Fortune by Julia K. Duncan

"Oh, how well that her peace was made with God before the accident, for she could do little thinking in such an agony of pain."
— from Elsie at the World's Fair by Martha Finley