I turned about to take the nearer path, and see, his blood is not yet dry upon my sword.
— from The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV by Harris Dickson

A stork had built its nest on the roof of the gate-tower.
— from A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

And she had brought it not only on a father, but on the best-known bishop on the bench; the best known also and most frequently mentioned, he had sometimes surmised with a kind of high humility, in the—how could one put it with sufficient reverence?—holy gossip of the angels.
— from The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth Von Arnim

"You carry him the rest of the way," he commanded, and set his burden in Nicholas's arms.
— from The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins

“ My dear young lady ,— “Pride is all very well, but charity is often best in the long run, and a little kindness to a suffering human being is never out of place in a young creature like you.
— from Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

At the lake’s far end we passed a small hotel, built in Norse style with carved and ornamented gables and painted a light green.
— from Through Scandinavia to Moscow by William Seymour Edwards

But Hilberg's best was now replaced by a flannel shirt with many a rent, army pants and a jacket that had been gray, before mud and smoke had brought it near the unity of Joseph's best garment.
— from Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon

He was curious to know what the Boston saloon-keeper's business with so prominent and respected a man as Antonio Barracola, the Italian banker, could be; and so, his business in New York finished, Collins returned to Boston.
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 127, October to March, 1909 by Various