Besides employing Negro Slaves to aid Rebellion, by the digging of ditches, the throwing up of intrenchments, and the erection of batteries, their Rebel masters placed in their hands arms with which to shoot down Union soldiers at the Battle of Bull Run, which, as we have seen, occurred on Sunday, July 21, 1861—and resulted in a check to the Union Cause.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

For a second, her eyes narrowed; she turned away, repelled, and as she turned, the ember dropped alongside the bed.
— from When the Owl Cries by Paul Alexander Bartlett

Her husband, blustering and pompous in his ways—meaning to be commanding and dignified—seldom opposed a wish his wife decidedly expressed, never stopping to ask reason or motive; and the Spanish children with whom Lola's nurse came in contact calling her by this diminutive, the child had grown up rejoicing in her outlandish name, and an unusually large allowance of good looks.
— from Overland Tales by Josephine Clifford

Edward now strengthened Towcester and received the submission of Earl Thurfrith (O.N. Ðorröðr) and all the Danes in Northamptonshire as far north as the Welland.
— from The Vikings by A. (Allen) Mawer