“Give her more scope, for it’s all we can do, and get on board again smartly; the lighter nearest inshore is dragging badly,” Downey shouted in reply.
— from The Life Savers: A story of the United States life-saving service by James Otis

He drank a glass of beer and so did not see the singular look which Wilfrid cast upon Minna.
— from Seraphita by Honoré de Balzac

The fourth satire opens with a violent attack on the parvenu Egyptian Crispinus, so powerful at the court of Domitian, and goes on by a somewhat clumsy transition to tell the story of the huge turbot caught near Ancona and presented to the emperor.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

The House was up at eleven, when he came home and eat three oysters, drank a glass of beer, and slept well.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope