It was sharp and pointed, with a design in gold laid on the steel, and a silver handle, with red stones.
— from The Confession: A Novel by Maksim Gorky

Retreating slowly, they again gave battle, and, though again defeated, inflicted great losses on the Spanish infantry.
— from The South American Republics, Part 2 of 2 by Thomas Cleland Dawson

But I kept these views to myself until I could see Stopford; said good-bye to Mahon and wished him luck; found Brodrick had wandered off on his own to see the fun at close quarters; legged it, all alone, down the open southern slope of the Kiretch Tepe Sirt and got down into ground less open to snipers' fire from the scrub-covered plain.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Ian Hamilton

After some days I got light on the subject of this awful dream, and hastened to tell John that I had found the way out of that fearful place for him.
— from From Death into Life or, Twenty Years of my Ministry by W. (William) Haslam

Then, as the horror begins to fade in 85 the perspective of the past, men go quietly back to their own personal cares and duties, and the mighty wave of righteous protest that threatened so much, dies in gentle lapping on the shore.
— from The Power of Truth: Individual Problems and Possibilities by William George Jordan