With one accord they threw down hatchets and knives and leaped into the river.
— from Four American Indians: King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola by Edson Leone Whitney

I brave when I see my father working in the awful heat of a moulding room—cooked alive—that I may dawdle here and kick a leather ball about a field."
— from Ann Arbor Tales by Karl Edwin Harriman

The guide held it for some time till the blaze caught at one after another of the projecting ends of the rolled-up handkerchiefs, and the flame had eaten its way into the mass, and then venturing nearer to the doorway, he advanced, keeping a little on one side, and watching for an opportunity to throw it in.
— from Among the Brigands by James De Mille

Mr. Watson was a man of sterling character, was a devoted husband and kind and loving father.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

They said, "A party of Philadelphia troops have fired into a crowd down here and killed a lot of women and children, and we come to get arms; we want to fight them."
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

At the far end of a spacious clearing, set back against the beeches and blending very well with the background, Crestwood's main lodge was a big log building that contained a dining hall, a kitchen, a lounge, a game room, an office for Thornton, quarters for the help and rooms for guests who preferred to remain in the lodge.
— from Double Challenge by Jim Kjelgaard