Instead of compromising the matter, the gentlemen read him a letter, secured him, and had him the same day confined in Wood-street Compter .
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Then he glanced round him, a long, stealthy look, down at the earth and up at the sky, and crept into the tree.
— from The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol

After chatting away at a great rate, he at length settled down in the hay, and went to sleep without having the slightest idea of the risk he had run, or of the part I had played in what came so near being a tragedy.
— from On the Indian Trail Stories of Missionary Work among Cree and Salteaux Indians by Egerton Ryerson Young

upon my honour, this must be an exception to the general rule,” Here a light step attracted his attention, and, on turning round, he found Mrs. Felix Lorraine at his elbow.
— from Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield