By then making a loop of about a couple of miles into the open country at the back of Pumblechook's premises, I got round into the High Street again, a little beyond that pitfall, and felt myself in comparative security.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Shortly after daylight, a violent jostling and thumping under foot showed that the water, gaining rapidly in the, hold, spite of all pumping, had floated the lighter casks up-ward to the deck, against which they were striking.
— from Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

The sun, gently rising in the horizon, spread its vivifying heat over nature, which seemed smiling on it.
— from The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert by Gustave Aimard

That the professors of literature generally reside in the highest stories, has been immemorially observed.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson

From this meeting—the secret of which he kept to himself—the young general returned in the highest spirits, and was kinder than ever to his adjutant.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

6. As soon as the Height and Violence of the Pulse abates; when his Breathing becomes less oppressed and difficult, and his Countenance less inflamed, he should take the Decoction Nº. 23 ; or, if it cannot be got ready in Time, he should take three Quarters of an Ounce of Cream of Tartar, and drink Whey plentifully after it.
— from Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

The girl returned immediately to her station, and even though he was at a considerable distance from her, Mark could hear the choking sob which escaped her lips.
— from Defending the Island: A story of Bar Harbor in 1758 by James Otis