From her size and rig, I guessed her to be the "Vanderbilt;" and I was afraid that the Chameleon had at last found more than her match, for the Vanderbilt enjoyed the reputation of great speed.
— from The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner by J. (John) Wilkinson

It was not that the husbands of Pauline's wedded friends were in any remembered instance grizzled, however; they were indeed, with few exceptions, by many years the juniors of her own dead veteran spouse; but the influences attendant upon their unions with this or that maiden had first concerned the question of money as a primary and sovereign force, and next that of name, prestige, or prospective elevation.
— from The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

If by chance the writer, abandoning science for pleasure, says to her, “Wait a moment, little one, till I come,” and runs in great haste to play with the madcap, she has disappeared.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The deer-tongue grows in deeper water, and retains its green hue till the weather intimates that winter is present.
— from The Game-Birds of the Coasts and Lakes of the Northern States of America A full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, with a comparison of the merits of breech-loaders and muzzle-loaders by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

Mrs. Morton and Roger instructed Gretchen how to reach Staten Island where her friends lived and then they got into the car and sped toward home.
— from Ethel Morton's Holidays by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

To Aura it was rather a relief; it gave her time to rearrange her world.
— from A Sovereign Remedy by Flora Annie Webster Steel

I did perhaps hope the father would appear: there was a Marquis coming; he wrote me for a room; I gave him the best, Number Thirteen, which you have all heard of: I did hope it might be he, for a Marquis, you know, is always genteel.
— from The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson by William Ernest Henley

The creature came steadily on, its eyes gleaming balefully; and presently it reached shallow water, when it suddenly threw its extended body into a coil, and raised its great head to the level of George’s face, its immense jaws wide open, and its wire-like forked tongue darting and quivering as it emitted a series of savage hisses that might well have quelled the courage of the bravest man.
— from The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer by Harry Collingwood

He felt that his prayer had been answered already, and rose in great haste to make his way back over the mountain to the bedside of Nora.
— from The Nightriders' Feud by Walter Caruth McConnell