The natives had been recently under Mount Melville, perhaps to the number of a dozen: abundance of large pearl muscle-shells was found about their deserted fireplaces, but these shells had been apparently some months out of water.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by John Oxley

The arrow pierced both tree and him, and they Were thus transfixed together—thus the hour Of death afforded one bright gleam of joy To Rustem, who, with lifted eyes to Heaven, Exclaimed: "Thanksgivings to the great Creator, For granting me the power, with my own hand, To be revenged upon my murderer!"
— from The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Firdawsi

His disguise is doffed—not to be resumed until many months have passed, when once more he leaps out upon the wild ranges of Griante.
— from The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
— from Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It soon replaced the buffalo robe upon mine; my boots were cast aside, and my legs encased in the scalp-fringed leggings; my hips were swathed in the leathern “breech-clout;” and my feet thrust into the foot-gear of the Comanche, which, by good fortune, fitted to a hair.
— from The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
— from The Centaur by Algernon Blackwood

Whether he completed the building or not, Bishop Raynelm undoubtedly made many additions and alterations.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by A. Hugh (Alfred Hugh) Fisher

But Rickman, unconquered, made matters even by reducing his expenditure.
— from The Divine Fire by May Sinclair

If personal appearance was to be relied upon, Miss MacDowlas was not a promising subject for diplomatic beguiling.
— from Vagabondia 1884 by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I have seen her several times at her cottage-door, looking tidy, but so poor and so ill that she has been rather upon my mind.
— from The Haunted Room: A Tale by A. L. O. E.