He swam all round the wood-pile, looking for a way out, and poking his little brown nose between the stakes, but there was no escape, and when he came back to the entrance and found it still closed his last hope died, and he gave up in despair.
— from Forest Neighbors: Life Stories of Wild Animals by William Davenport Hulbert

But the period for indulging such contemplations has long since passed away.
— from Liverpool a few years since: by an old stager by James Aspinall

One is forced into scandalous conjectures, however little one may be inclined to suspicion."
— from The Pictures; The Betrothing: Novels by Ludwig Tieck

At the age of nineteen, considering the uncertainty of life and the awfulness of judgment, especially to those who waste life in pleasure or spend it in acquiring wealth, and fearing lest he should fall into such courses, he left Oxford and returned to his father’s house.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts

I received a letter from L. marked by 29 in the margin to trust entirely in 10; and that in February I should certainly have leave to return.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 by Various

She was looking out of the window in the afternoon, thinking how she would love to go berry-gathering in the forest, if she could have left her invalid, when a man on horseback rode in at the gate shutting off the forest trail, and she instantly recognized him to be Joe Gunnage, who had come to live on Blue Bird Ridge.
— from Daughters of the Dominion: A Story of the Canadian Frontier by Bessie Marchant

For instance: " See Charlie Hays loop the loop !"
— from Entertaining Made Easy by Emily Rose Burt