He remembers being half-carried, half-rushed to the top of the slope, and in a vast enclosure with palms and fruit trees being run up to a large man sitting massively in a chair in the midst of the greatest possible commotion and excitement.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Ruth had often observed it; and she had told her mother more than a few times that she was perfectly sure there must be a big room up there, and lots of people in it, for she had seen the flash of their eyes when they peeped down into the room and watched (wouldn't it be more proper to say clocked) the people.
— from The House With Sixty Closets: A Christmas Story for Young Folks and Old Children by Frank Samuel Child

Under the shadow of Anvil Mountain, the motor boat ran up to a little wharf, almost completely hidden in greenery, and there Cecil and the boy landed.
— from Plotting in Pirate Seas by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

One [Pg 238] night after a chase, as Jack and Joe were walking about through the camp, a man and a little boy rode up to a lodge close to them.
— from Jack Among the Indians; Or, A Boy's Summer on the Buffalo Plains by George Bird Grinnell

He had thrown a number of javelins at it, always believing he was sure of his mark; but still the beast reappeared unwounded, till at length it took its way down the very glen where Brandon Priory stands, and then entered the thicket, just as the baron was close upon its track.
— from The Convict: A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

At six o'clock the main body of the British rushed upon the American lines.
— from Andrew Jackson by William Garrott Brown