Shelterless fragments of straw and paper got up revolving storms there, when the main street was at peace; and the water-cart, as if it were drunk or short-sighted, came blundering and jolting round it, making it muddy when all else was clean.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

After falling three or four yards, upon some black and jagged rocks, it gathered itself together and resumed its journey into and through the gloom.
— from In the Pecos Country by Edward Sylvester Ellis

He is here taught that other men’s rights must be respected as well as his, and that not one hour before absolute justice requires it, shall the land of the Amorites be given to his posterity.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods

If wheat, peas, and all the rest are indispensable to us, our care, by a just return, is absolutely necessary to them.
— from Social Life in the Insect World by Jean-Henri Fabre

About the year 1771 there died one of the four children of Bond, a jeweller, residing in an alley leading from Wellclose Square to Ratcliffe Highway.
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

They returned none too soon, for the evening meal was ready, but, as Joe remarked, “It was no more ready than they were.”
— from The Radio Boys at Ocean Point; Or, The Message that Saved the Ship by Allen Chapman

At first, the good husband was unwilling to suspect the honour of his sanctified friend, and one whole month elapsed before any jealousy rose in his mind; but hearing the charge repeated he at last interrogated his wife on the subject who frankly confessed that the Bushreen had seduced her.
— from Life and Travels of Mungo Park by Mungo Park