Some how the skates had got turned around side-ways on his feet, and his feet got to going in different directions, and Pa’s feet were getting so far apart that I was afraid I would have two Pa’s, half the size, with one leg apiece.
— from Peck's Compendium of Fun Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, Humor, Sarcasm and Pathos of America's Favorite Humorist by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

The brute drew his legs together like a bucking horse and leaped into the air, then plunged toward his tormentors; but those that had him in lasso galloped in different directions, and poor bruin was quickly strained and strangled to death.
— from The Valiant Runaways by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Somehow the skates had got turned around side-ways on his feet, and his feet got to going in different directions, and Pa’s feet were getting so far apart that I was afraid I would have two Pa’s, half the size, with one leg apiece.
— from Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

"I am going in," declared Dick, and pushed open the old kitchen door.
— from The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall by Edward Stratemeyer