The next moment it straightened itself again, stretched out its neck, and whinnied in a way which brought answers from some of its companions, and then dropped upon its knees and rolled over, struggling a little before lying still, its last breath coming in a weary sigh.
— from The Peril Finders by George Manville Fenn

As it stands now, here she is, keen, all ready, once she's solid in her mind about the right spirit of the scenario, to start south with me...” Peter waved the poker in a series of small circles and figure eights; then held it motionless and sighted along it with squinted-up eyes.
— from The Trufflers: A Story by Samuel Merwin

"I kept a record of some of their sorriest mishaps.
— from The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

The spirit of resistance and the sense of human dignity, dulled in me and paralyzed, as it were, by grief, suddenly awoke again, and in this hour I realized that man is not made for that selfish concentration of despair which is known as resignation or stoicism.
— from Mauprat by George Sand

Their surfaces are usually waving, and in some instances rise into knobs and ridges of several hundred feet high; many of them are clad in a scanty growth of pitch pine, red cedar, scrubby oaks, &c., while others exhibit a bald or prairie surface.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 4 by Thomas Say

If it be a fact, as would seem to be indisputable, that during the last few weeks there have been cases—we will not attempt to say how many or how few—of burying alive, a scandal and a horror, wholly unpardonable in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, have to be faced; and the sooner the full truth is known and rules of safety established the better.
— from Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented by William Tebb