Proof came the next moment that it must have been eight hours at least, for the dull booming bellow of the great conch shell blown by one of the blacks rang out, and Pete started up in his bunk to stare at Nic and rub his calf softly.
— from Nic Revel: A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land by George Manville Fenn

Suddenly her wandering eyes fell on Deronda, standing before her, and immediately, as if she had been expecting him and looking for him, she tried to stretch out her arms, which were held back by her supporters, saying, in a muffled voice, “It is come, it is come!
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

The builders of America, by Ellsworth Huntington and Leon F. Whitney.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1955 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Having cleared Rhododendron Spur, an attack was to be made on Chunuk Bair, eventually holding a line from Chunuk Bair to the head of Kur Dere, behind Hill Q. Left Assaulting Column—(Brigadier-General H. V. Cox): 29th Indian Infantry Brigade; 4th Australian Infantry Brigade; Indian Mountain Battery (less 1 Section); and the 2nd Field Company, N.Z. Engineers.
— from New Zealanders at Gallipoli by Fred Waite

And that summer when General Hendricks was walking out of the bank every hour and looking from under his thin, blue-veined hand at the strange cloud of insects covering the sky, and when Martin Culpepper was predicting that the plague of grasshoppers would leave the next day, and when John Barclay was getting that deep vertical crease between his eyes that made him look forty while he was still in his twenties, Adrian P. Brownwell was chirping cheerfully in the Banner about the "salubrious climate of Garrison County," and writing articles about "our phenomenal prospects for a bumper crop."
— from A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White