Her eyes darkened into their usual melancholy look.
— from Peggy by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Some of his further reflections were to this effect: “Do I take up my pen to write the humiliating word failed ?
— from Farthest North The Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition by Charles Lanman

Land carriage is hardly required from the numerous rivers and streams which pour their waters from every direction into the Upper Mississippi.
— from Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat

During training, many elephants die in the unaccountable manner already referred to, of what the natives designate a broken heart .
— from Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

Once when the latter went out on his "fall hunts," on the grounds near the Sioux territory, taking all his relatives with him (upwards of twenty in number), they were attacked by the Sioux at early dawn, in the usual manner.
— from Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson