In this charge Lord Portarlington had a horse shot under him.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Caroline Leavitt pushed her aside.
— from The Invisible Foe A Story Adapted from the Play by Walter Hackett by Louise Jordan Miln

In the very centre was a flight of steps which descended to the bowling-green beneath, where the yew hedge which grew round it had been fantastically cut into the shape of an embattlemented parapet, framing the distant view into a series of charming little pictures: here a glimpse of the river, there a delightful vignette of the church.
— from The Village by the River by H. Louisa Bedford

LORD MELBOURNE attacked, in the House of Lords, the Ministerial plan of finance, and their silence as to the future [ Mr. Sancho Bull and his State Physician ], and invited the DUKE OF WELLINGTON to bring forward a measure for an alteration of the Corn Laws, promising him a full House if he would do so.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete by Various

Duval ran his hand through his curly locks, pulled hard at his pipe, and delivered himself bluntly.
— from The Harlequin Opal: A Romance. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Fergus Hume

When, however, Bruce and other travellers made their way further than any civilised man had before penetrated into the interior of the continent, their accounts were discredited, and people were disappointed when they were told that many of their cherished notions had no foundation in truth; in fact, up to the commencement of the present century the greater part of Africa was a terra incognita , and only by slow and painful degrees, and during a comparatively late period, has a knowledge of some of its more important geographical features been obtained.
— from Great African Travellers: From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston

Juan Manuel's couplets and [82] quatrains of four, eight, eleven, twelve, and fourteen syllables, his arrangement ( Enxemplo XVI. ) of the octosyllabic redondilla in the Conde Lucanor , prove him an adept in the Galician form, an irreproachable virtuoso in his art.
— from A History of Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

If Moselle wins, I can let Pamflett have a few hundreds to go on with.
— from Miser Farebrother: A Novel (vol. 2 of 3) by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

It is clear that Henry Fielding flung his characteristic energies zealously into the acquirement of the classical learning proffered him at Eton; but a fine scholarship, great possession though it be, was not the only gain of his Eton years.
— from Henry Fielding: a Memoir Including Newly Discovered Letters and Records with Illustrations from Contemporary Prints by G. M. (Gertrude M.) Godden