He too dances a maze in the air before he settles.
— from The Open Air by Richard Jefferies

He made a shy at it, killed a man in the attempt, but him and another chap as tried it with him was drowned off the coast.
— from The Spider and the Fly; or, An Undesired Love by Charles Garvice

The commentators add, in explanation of this passage, the opinion of Pliny: “The being beheld by a wolf in Italy is accounted noxious, and is supposed to take away the speech of a man, if these animals behold him ere he sees them.”
— from Quentin Durward by Walter Scott

The anchor light seemed to fade away and merge into thin air before his very eyes.
— from The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat; Or, the Stormy Cruise of the Red Rover by Janet Aldridge

Concha caught sight of the form of a man in the alley before him.
— from In Kedar's Tents by Henry Seton Merriman

In a little while a [Pg 73] second plover arrives from the field behind; he, too, dances a maze in the air before he settles.
— from The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies

The absence of Laches, which had been in great measure the occasion of this misunderstanding, is also very artfully mentioned in the altercation between him and Sostrata.
— from The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes by Terence

To advance any man in the army, because his father is an orator in the senate, or the chief inhabitant of a borough, seems not more rational, than to make another man a judge, because some of his ancestors were skilled in gunnery; nor would the lawyers have juster reasons for complaint in one case, than the soldiers in the other.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I by Samuel Johnson

It is our conjecture that van den Eeden taught the boy chiefly and perhaps exclusively pianoforte playing, he being a master in that art; but his influence was small.
— from The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I by Alexander Wheelock Thayer

Two other hylids ( Hyla lanciformis and multifasciata ) in the Amazon Basin have transverse dark marks on the dorsum.
— from A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William Edward Duellman