The mob assailed his carriage with stones just as he was entering his own door; and if the coachman had not made a sudden jerk into the court-yard, and the domestics closed the gate immediately, he would, in all probability, have been dragged out and torn to pieces.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Healy apparently did not succeed in making himself clear as to his purpose, and so he returned to Nashville where he found Andrew, junior, and his wife, explained his intentions to 202 them and returned to the Hermitage with them.
— from The Hermitage, Home of Old Hickory by Stanley F. Horn

Halloway had evidently been waylaid and killed by a blow of an axe just as he was entering his yard gate, and then the door of the house had been broken open and his wife had been killed, after which Halloway's body had been dragged into the house, and the house had been fired with the intention of making it appear that the house had burned by accident.
— from Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, August 1899 by Various

A young English officer was wounded just as he was extricating himself from burial in a mass of earth.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

It blew in from the street just as he was enjoying his after-dinner cigar.
— from A Man of Means by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Come back, you hound," shouted the irate author, grabbing his publisher by the tails of his coat, just as he was edging his way back to the shop.
— from The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

And just as he was entering his front-door he recollected that he had given no instructions about the drunken man in the enclosure.
— from The City of Pleasure: A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett

Just as he was entering his nineteenth year, young Davy began the study of chemistry, as a branch of his profession.
— from Famous Men of Science by Sarah Knowles Bolton

Something or other, I forget what, had put his temper out of joint; and he was expressing himself with a freedom, vigour, and fluency of language which I have seldom heard equalled, certainly never surpassed.
— from The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba by Harry Collingwood

For, just as he was establishing his special magazine, he asked me to help him with a contribution in the style of that then new popularity, my Proverbs.
— from My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Against his judgment, against his will even, he saw him as a friend.
— from Charles Rex by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell