Then it swerved across a furrow, stopped, started off again at full speed, changed its course, stopped anew, uneasy, spying out every danger, uncertain what route to take, when suddenly it began to run with great bounds, disappearing finally in a large patch of beet-root.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

An hour later they entered the office of a famous shipping company in Cockspur Street, and there inquired for a boat sailing for the Dominion.
— from The Lady of North Star by Ottwell Binns

[34] Students are at times sent to the school for instruction with a request for aid from some charitable institution, church, hospital, school, or settlement which knows and is interested in the family; but, in general, a girl needing financial help comes without such recommendations, and consequently a more thorough investigation of the case is necessary.
— from The Making of a Trade School by Mary Schenck Woolman

2nd, A full sized cartoon in charcoal or monochrome, with all the details carefully drawn, and showing the lead lines and positions of the iron stanchions for strengthening the window.
— from A Manual of Historic Ornament Treating upon the evolution, tradition, and development of architecture and other applied arts. Prepared for the use of students and craftsmen by Richard Glazier

While it is a fair substantial cave, it can not be compared for a moment with the cave which Crusoe had on his own island, and which he enlarged with so much perseverance.
— from Harper's Young People, July 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various