His hair was red, his eyes were blue, and he had an alert manner about him which made Brendon wonder how such a sharp person ever came to place himself in the position of being run over.
— from The Yellow Holly by Fergus Hume

In this advantageous situation, Prince Eugene conceived the design of surprising the centre of our quarters, and by that blow to make himself master of our positions, and afterwards of Milan, and other places of the country, all in very bad order; thus finishing effectively and suddenly his conquest.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Then as a sudden possible explanation came to her mind—"Abe, has Uncle Tex—Is he in trouble?"
— from The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright

"But the Shipping Commission couldn't make up their minds whether them yellow-pine ships would be any good even after they were built, on account some professional experts claimed that yellow pine shrinks in water to the extent of .00031416 milliegrams to the kilowatt-hour, or .000000001 per cent., and other professional experts said, ' Yow .00031416 milliegrams!' and that .00000031416 would be big already, and that also what them first experts didn't know from the shrinkage of yellow pine, understand me."
— from Worrying Won't Win by Montague Glass

The middle stanza rises to great lyric heights, and should prove especially captivating to such discriminating critics of lyricism as our colleague Mr. Kleiner.
— from Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

Merton and Logan knew well enough the unsoundness of any such proceedings, especially considering the mental debility of the old gentleman.
— from The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang

On returning to the town he urged the necessity of instantly capitulating; and most of those in authority took a similar part, except Castellas, the commander of the regular troops.
— from The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart