"The program of the modern business man in Haiti is different: Make the negro discontented with his primitive way of living, give him a taste for unnecessary luxuries, teach him to envy his neighbor's wealth and covet his neighbor's goods, and then make him work in order to earn the [Pg 37] money to gratify these wishes, and civilization will begin.
— from Plotting in Pirate Seas by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

He flung out his arms for help, and they fell upon Lady Pippinworth and went round her.
— from Tommy and Grizel by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

The sentries were bid to shoot at any man rushing singly upon him, and to fire upon large bodies advancing at the double.
— from Khartoum Campaign, 1898; or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh

He sent a steamer up the Jumna on the 15th, with a howitzer under Captain Harward, and twenty fusiliers under Lieutenant Arnold; and these worked much execution among the rebels on the banks.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

It would have cost over two dollars a cubic yard to cut through the hills and fill up the hollows by team-haul; it cost only one-tenth of that to build timber trestles, carrying the line high, and to fill up later by train-haul.
— from The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas) Skelton

Uncle Dan's fierce mastiff and his hounds seemed to scent [Pg 117] coming danger, the latter sending up mournful howls and the former uttering low, fierce howls of anger.
— from Brother Against Brother; or, The Tompkins Mystery. A Story of the Great American Rebellion. by John R. (John Roy) Musick

“That’s easily remedied,” said A. and gave him a theme (“ Freudvoll und Leidvoll ”) and locked him in his room with the remark that he must make a beginning on the variations within three hours.
— from The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I by Alexander Wheelock Thayer