I have killed seven at a blow, slain two giants, led a unicorn captive, and caught a wild boar, then why should I be afraid of those men standing outside my door?”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Once again the heavy guns boomed out, pitching shell after shell into the German lines, and under cover of this protective fire the Battalion withdrew.
— from The Story of the Munsters at Etreux, Festubert, Rue du Bois and Hulloch by Jessie Louisa Moore Rickard

But Ben made nobly his what he did mould; What was another's lead becomes his gold: Like an unrighteous conqueror he reigns, Yet rules that well which he unjustly gains.
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden

The blossom storm came and blew away the apple blossoms, the heavy fragrance of the lilacs died, and the shrubbery became again only a mass of green leaves and ugly, crooked stems; but amid this, something happened to Tessa; something that was worth as much to her as any happenings that came before it; something that had its beginning when she was a little school-girl running along the planks and teasing Felix Harrison.
— from Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline: A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life by Conklin, Nathaniel, Mrs.

I have been with God like an untoward child, that no longer than the rod has been on my back (or at least in sight)
— from Anne Bradstreet and Her Time by Helen Campbell

“A priest in full orders,” objected the King, “of good life and unblemished conversation.
— from The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt

Beyond the glimmering lights, an unseen choir burst into the "a-a-a" of the national love-song.
— from The Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas by George S. (George Shepard) Chappell

It is very striking in appearance, being ornamented with a balustrade, on which are large globes of stone, and a great lion and unicorn curiously sculptured on the opposite side.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne