Alvarez in his cups was a live man, robbed of caution for the moment, and that moment was destined to be his ruin; for, outside, creeping up the stairway of the tower, came a Spaniard,
— from Roger the Bold: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

The muscles being unbalanced become flabby or contracted, unable to support the trunk of the body erect, and a curvature, usually a 414 double curvature, of the spine is the consequence.
— from The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by Various

News of the recent incident was bound to bring a larger force of Cossacks upon the scene; parties of Russians would soon be scouring the country, not only to discover traces of the fugitive, but to keep an eye open for the torpedo boat destroyer.
— from Kobo: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang

By eight bells every stitch of canvas had been furled or clewed up to save it, and the brig lay rolling in the dark hollows like a drunken sailor reeling home.
— from Under Rocking Skies by L. Frank (Lewis Frank) Tooker

While the two knights were wearing rather a crest-fallen appearance at her reprimand, the third, never far off, came upon the scene, and she repeated her caveat to him also.
— from A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy

Leonard, too, felt full of curiosity upon the same point.
— from The Devil-Tree of El Dorado: A Novel by Frank Aubrey

No one with the picket, except Captain Methven, knew precisely where the Headquarters of the Regiment had been fixed, or could undertake to strike it in the dark; so Captain Methven decided to attempt to find it himself.
— from The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir

This shaft was none other than Elijah the Tishbite—the bold and uncompromising witness for God who [7] stood in the breach at a moment when every one seemed to have fled from the field of conflict, unable to stem the overwhelming torrent.
— from Elijah the Tishbite. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. V by Charles Henry Mackintosh

[26] —Do you remember that it was you who refused any form of conversation upon the subject of religion?
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

The governor of the prison, finding that Charlie spoke the language fluently, often came up to sit with him, conversing with him on the affairs of that unknown country, England.
— from With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty