Else he've been took out an' another party put in unbeknawnst," stuttered Collins.
— from Sons of the Morning by Eden Phillpotts

"Instead of a garden suite with a private pool, I usually sleep in a bubble-tent, with nothing to eat but condensed food."
— from Sjambak by Jack Vance

The Cattle Ridge, therefore, merely wrinkles its craggy brows with a puzzled air, and Preston Plains is untroubled save of its own inhabitants.
— from The Delectable Mountains by Arthur Colton

If he would, he might easily have taken the sceptre from the yielding hands of the Empress and played the autocrat, as Patiomkin played it under similar circumstances in later years.
— from Love affairs of the Courts of Europe by Thornton Hall

A policeman, picking it up, saw that the opened blade worked on a spring.
— from The Winning Clue by James Hay