He had forgotten for the moment that he had ever left Lumberton, and Ruth soothed him as best she could.
— from Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie; Or, Great Times in the Land of Cotton by Alice B. Emerson

It was evidently her extraordinary long life and reign that caused her to be ultimately believed to be something supernatural, and to be regarded as a fairy.
— from Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland Being a Tourist's Guide to Its Most Beautiful Scenery & an Archæologist's Manual for Its Most Interesting Ruins by Thomas O’Neill Russell

In a few minutes a white-faced seaman, with yellow beard trembling to the wind, and his eyes looking like a rat's with the white lashes and pink retinas, leisurely climbed aloft with a line in his hand, and swinging himself on to the main-yard, slided out upon the horses to the extremity, or yard-arm as it is termed, which [214] he bestrode as a jockey a steed; and then hauled up the line, to the end of which was hitched a tackle.
— from The Death Ship: A Strange Story, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Clark Russell

She hardly ever left Linda alone, requiring her company when she went out to make her little purchases in the market, and always on those more momentous and prolonged occasions when she attended some public prayer-meeting.
— from Linda Tressel by Anthony Trollope