They went out very cautiously and tramped about where it seemed that the mysterious visitors had been, and Amy even got down on hands and knees and felt over the ground.
— from Left Tackle Thayer by Ralph Henry Barbour

In many places Jack and I had to get down on our hands and knees and feel out the path.
— from The Voyage of the Rattletrap by Hayden Carruth

Glass is said to have been discovered by persons having accidentally kindled a fire on the sandy shore with sea-weed, when the alkali from the ashes united with the silex of the sand; and Pliny tells us that minium , or red lead, was first recognised, in consequence of a fire that took place at the Piræus at Athens, where some ceruse , which had been exposed to the fire, had been found converted into a red substance.
— from Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy by the Aid of Popular Toys and Sports by John Ayrton Paris

“Death would be good luck?” said I. “The kindest thing of all,” he answered, killing a fly on the window ledge, as if to demonstrate it.
— from The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle by Richard Washburn Child

In the same collection is a leather box for holding a knife and fork; on the outer case is a medallion, in the centre of which is a representation of the two spies returning from Canaan with a large bunch of grapes.
— from Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess