“Now I'll have to go get a new E string,” he complained.
— from Cow-Country by B. M. Bower

Vanderwalen left the army, and wandered all over Germany and northern Europe seeking his preserver.
— from Female Warriors, Vol. 2 (of 2) Memorials of Female Valour and Heroism, from the Mythological Ages to the Present Era. by Ellen C. (Ellen Creathorne) Clayton

Mike had not seen him arrested, but when he had come out of the mine, the man was gone, and nobody ever saw him again.
— from King Coal : a Novel by Upton Sinclair

What kind of a watchman was this, who let a woman come and go and never even saw her tracks in the dust?
— from Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge