The lowest figure represents a most extraordinary animal, called the Flying Frog.
— from Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature by J. G. (John George) Wood

Lord Dawne came in next, with Dr. Galbraith and Mr. Kilroy of Ilverthorpe, and these were followed by Father Ricardo and Mr. Ellis, after whom came Ideala herself, alone.
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand

The convoy travelled by forced marches, but when they reached the lake of Garden, and saw the stars mirrored in its bosom, and heard the plashing of the waterfall, Amelolt thought, that being in the land of the Wolfings, they need no longer fear robbers, and might enjoy a little needful rest.
— from Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages by Wilhelm Wägner

And thus we can readily see the most substantial grounds for regarding all moral emotions and doings as divine in their nature, and as a means of rising to and communing with God.
— from Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers

He went down on his knees by the sack, got a heavy lump in his hands, rubbed at it, held it closer to the firelight, rubbed again more excitedly, and finally sat back, staring up at her with new flames of another sort leaping in his eyes.
— from The Everlasting Whisper by Jackson Gregory

It crept on all fours, but when it reached the place where the king sat it rose upon its feet, and throwing the furry covering from its face, revealed a most extraordinary and weird countenance.
— from King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

"There now!" exclaimed Reuben, dropping his pipe in his astonishment; "to think that I had that fact right afore my eyes all my life and never could see it!
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Hayden, Stone & Company, bankers, of Boston and New York, who have since successfully financed the Ray Consolidated and Chino copper companies, undertook to send their engineer to Rawhide to make an examination of the property with a view to financing the company for railroad and milling equipment amounting to upward of a million dollars.
— from My Adventures with Your Money by George Graham Rice