Black Blevens was not long in carrying his election war into every quarter.
— from The Silent Alarm by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Miss Vandaleur was not ignorant that the young gentleman who had just completed his education was, if every one had their rights, Monsieur le Duc; and she was as much disappointed to have missed seeing him as her mother was glad that they had not met.
— from Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

For himself he took his blanket under the darkest shadow of the willows and covered himself entirely with it excepting a hole to breathe through.
— from The Woman from Outside [On Swan River] by Hulbert Footner