Many small demons came running up, saying that the old lady had been slain.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

2. Cīvēs Rōmānī urbem suam turribus altīs et mūrīs longīs mūnīverant.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

2. Cîvês Rômânî urbem suam turribus altîs et mûrîs longîs mûnîverant.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Richard Atkins, Robert Davis, uxor Atkins, Robert Lunthorne, William Baker, John Vernie, Edward Oliver, Thomas Wood, Samuell Morris, Thomas Rees, 461 Michael Batt, John Wolrich, [Pg 44 uxor Batt, Mrs. Wolrich, vidua Tindall, Johathin Giles, Mr. Stafferton, Christopher Ripen, uxor Stafferton, Thomas Banks, John Fisher, Frances Butcher, John Rose, Henry Daivlen, Thomas Thornegood, Arthur Chandler, John Badston, Richard Sanders, Susan Blackwood, Thomas Helcott,
— from Colonial Records of Virginia by Various

There were but four men who knew how the matter would go, and those were E. W. Barber, reading clerk; Richard U. Sherman, tally clerk; J. M. Ashley, and Augustus Frank, the committee of two named to get the proper number of votes for the bill.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various

Anyhow, even if I could rig up something to click out 'C.Q.D.' automatically, I could hardly arrange to have the answer come that way.
— from Tom Swift and His Wireless Message; Or, The Castaways of Earthquake Island by Victor Appleton

A volley of their arrows crashed and splintered the trees, whilst Carfax rose up stiffly to give fresh orders.
— from Robin Hood by Paul Creswick

“What’s that?” he cried, rousing up suddenly to listen, and a savage look replaced the blank stare.
— from Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge

Sometimes a little more wind would spring up, and the pack opened a bit, and made fresh channels, so that we got on; then the wind would drop, and the loose ice close round us, so that we hardly moved, and at last one morning when I turns out, we were froze in.
— from Christmas Penny Readings: Original Sketches for the Season by George Manville Fenn

All now is changed, in mournful chorus Want and confusion round us spread; The Lord seems dead that erst rul’d o’er us Beneath us, is the Devil dead.
— from The poems of Heine; Complete Translated into the original metres; with a sketch of his life by Heinrich Heine

Laura now struggled to get loose, and [ 38 ] called louder and louder, till at last every maid in the house came racing up stairs, three steps at a time, to know what was the matter.
— from Holiday House: A Series of Tales by Catherine Sinclair

She went on somewhat irrelevantly, "Did not godly Maister Cauldsowans redd up [settle] the doom o' such—'all desirable young men riding upon horses—'" "An' I'll gae redd up the dairy, an' kirn the butter, grannie!" said Winsome Charteris, breaking in on the flow of her grandmother's reproaches.
— from The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett