Sometimes it seemed as though they were working upwards towards us, for we could hear a pick upon the stones; and so we waited there, as terriers wait for rats.
— from The Tickencote Treasure by William Le Queux

CHAPTER VII THE WOLF PACK In seasons when caribou were plentiful along the coast, wolves were also plentiful, for it is the habit of wolves in this land to follow the trail of the caribou herds and prey upon the stragglers.
— from Bobby of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace

Just as I answered, “Yes,” I saw the great smith change his aspect, pick up the still hot hand-bill that Uncle Jack had forged, stare hard at it on both sides, and then, throwing it down, he seized the pincers in one hand, the forge shovel in the other, turned on the blast and made the fire glow, and at last whisked out a piece of white-hot steel.
— from Patience Wins: War in the Works by George Manville Fenn

The factory then, in 1883, changed hands, and passed under the superintendency of Prof. M.A. Scovell, then of Champaign, Illinois, who, with Prof. Webber, had worked out, in the laboratories of the Illinois Industrial University, a practical method for obtaining sugar from sorghum in quantities which at prices then prevalent would pay a profit on the business.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various

He found that his mother and the children had already put up the shutters and made ready to receive the Yorkers.
— from With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster