Sometimes the wind “backs,” as sailors term it, during a N. E. storm, from the N. E. through the N. N. E., N., and N. N. W. to N. W.
— from The Philosophy of the Weather. And a Guide to Its Changes by T. B. (Thomas Belden) Butler

I was familiar with the subject of the decadence of shipping interests in all its affecting branches, having been already some time in Dunnet, and I felt sure that Captain Littlepage's mind had now returned to a safe level.
— from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

A whirlwind program of racing, roping, bull-dogging—this event is that in which a rider springs from a running horse, grasps by the horns a wild steer running at his side, twists the animal's head up and backward and so throws it down and then holds the creature on the ground—rough-riding and other Rodeo sports followed immediately after the parade.
— from The Ramblin' Kid by Earl Wayland Bowman

Oh, I suppose I thought that I was a grown woman too when I was twenty; I can look back and see that I did; and, what's more preposterous still, I thought Mr. Brinkley was a man at twenty-four.
— from April Hopes by William Dean Howells

“Advance, then; thou hast still the light of the soul, and the demons may recoil before a soul that is dauntless and guiltless.
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

But the king left them but a short time in doubt as to his intentions; for on the 28th of May came forth that remarkable statute which appears on the hundred and forty‐seventh page of the “Statutes of the Realm,” and in which the king addresses himself to the hearts and understandings of his subjects, in the following fervent expressions:— 255 “The king, to all whom, etc.—Greeting: “While we behold the imperfection of human weakness, and weigh with attentive consideration the burdens that lie upon our shoulders, we are inwardly tormented with divers compunctions, tossed about by the waves of divers thoughts, and are frequently troubled, passing sleepless nights , hesitating in our inmost soul upon what ought to be done , what to be held, or what to be prosecuted.
— from The Life and Reign of Edward I. by Robert Benton Seeley

Whether his age made him a more acceptable means of communication with the nuns, or whether Pier di Cosimo, the elder pupil, already displayed his hatred of womankind, I know not; perhaps the boy already showed that innate devotion and especial fitness for sanctity which marks his entire art career.
— from Fra Bartolommeo by Leader Scott

"like a candle struggling in the socket, blazed and sunk, blazed and sunk, till it disappeared at length in total darkness."
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes by Daniel Defoe