But still he had a vague idea of rejoining Lee and fighting to the last; just why he did not understand; but the blind instinct was in him.
— from Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

"Here are vour in our room, und the leftenant says there are three on the roof, und berhabs we killed vour or vive outside."
— from Overland: A Novel by John William De Forest

It was easy enough to rebuff him, the easier as his physical proximity always roused in her a vague instinct of resistance; but it was hard so to temper the rebuff with promise that the game of suspense should still delude him.
— from The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

And had not your sordid Venetian traders stepped in, courting the infidel for love of gain, the Cross would still be worshipped on all the shores of the Adriatic, and the Uzcoques would still combat for honour and victory instead of revenge and plunder.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various

we had already visited in our rambles out of Los Angeles.
— from On Sunset Highways: A Book of Motor Rambles in California by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

This, with a little coaxing of the finger nail, comes out, and then you have a view into our room, and I have no doubt can hear quite well everything that is said in here.
— from The Gold Kloof by H. A. (Henry Anderson) Bryden