There Garvey, leading a charge, is shot through the head, but Mulligan goes on and receives a medal for his bravery.
— from Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story by Charles Raymond Barrett

Andy Green licked a cigarette into shape the while he watched with unfriendly eyes the shambling departure of their guest.
— from The Happy Family by B. M. Bower

It extended over a great length, and came in straggling order, the men leading their animals, and making their way with difficulty through the thick trees.
— from Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

My grandfather lodged a complaint in some quarter; and his son, who had sent in his papers at once, got his discharge from the Army before he left the hospital, and entered the Civil Service as an official of the fourteenth or lowest class.
— from A Russian Gentleman by S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich) Aksakov

At any moment she might get leave and come; if she had not had it yet that only made it more likely that she would have it soon.
— from Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair

In England, Shakspeare and Bacon; in France, Rabelais and Descartes; in Germany, Luther and Copernicus; in Spain, Cervantes; and in 68 Italy, Galileo, Machiavelli and Tasso; these names to which should be added those of the great explorers, Columbus and Vasco de Gama, serve to remind one of what was meanwhile passing in the west.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White