In the case of two among the few students who passed through my hands, the result far exceeded my most sanguine anticipations.
— from Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But now it seemed but a breathless space before they would come into the presence of people, for the two horses made rapid time, and the distances flew past them mile by mile, the girl feeling each moment more shy and embarrassed, and conscious of the words she had overheard in the early morning.
— from The Man of the Desert by Grace Livingston Hill

" "A contented fiddlestick!" exclaimed Mrs. Martin, so angrily that Malcolm thought it wise to make a diversion, especially as a warm fishy odour in the adjoining kitchen heralded the near arrival of the noontide repast.
— from Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey

The least noise, for example, makes me start, and the stupidity of a student causes me exasperation instead of amusement.
— from The Parasite: A Story by Arthur Conan Doyle

War Service —Nile Ex., 1897 (Egyptian medal with clasp); Nile Ex., 1898 (Despatches, May and Sept., 1898; Brev. of Lieut.-Col.; 4th class Osmanieh; 2 clasps for Egyptian medal; medal); S. African War, 1899-1900, Commanding mixed force.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 6 (of 8) From the Occupation of Pretoria to Mr. Kruger's Departure from South Africa, with a Summarised Account of the Guerilla War to March 1901 by Louis Creswicke