131 XII Varied Explosions Just as Peggy had expected, the producers were delighted to have Randy stay an extra week and play the Russian ballet teacher, Kolenkhov, in You Can’t Take It with You .
— from Peggy Goes Straw Hat by Virginia Hughes

Our prospects of receiving succour from the Bridgewater having become very feeble, after two days of moderate weather had elapsed, I called a council of all the officers, to deliberate upon the best means of relieving ourselves from the precarious situation in which our misfortune, and captain Palmer's want of energy and humanity had left us exposed; and it was finally determined, that an officer and crew in the largest of the two six-oared cutters, should endeavour to get to Sandy Cape, sixty-three leagues distant, and from thence along the coast to Port Jackson; and pray His Excellency, the governor, to send vessels to carry us either back to that port or on towards England.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

Like as a farmer, who hath lost his dog, Some morn, at market, in a crowded town,— Through many streets the poor beast runs in vain, And follows this man after that, for hours; And late at evening, spent and panting, falls Before a stranger’s threshold, not his home, With flanks a-tremble, and his slender tongue Hangs quivering out between his dust-smeared jaws, And piteously he eyes the passers-by; But home his master comes to his own farm, Far in the country, wondering where he is,—
— from Poems by Matthew Arnold

Into the Mississippi, just above Port Hudson, emptied the Red River which drained much of the trans-Mississippi South, and down which great stores of food were being floated to supply the armies of the Confederacy.
— from Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi by William C. Everhart

And, just as Paul had expected, they came back home more than ever enthused with the hope and prospect of winning that royal banner for the Stanhope troop.
— from The Banner Boy Scouts; or, The Struggle for Leadership by George A. Warren

393 McDowell, reckoning upon the easy superiority of his force, sent detachments hither and yon, to "head off" Jackson, and prevent his escape, that seeming now to be the only thing to be done with a fleeing general whose army was beset on every side, outnumbered, and hopelessly entangled.
— from The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 1 (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History by George Cary Eggleston

Linda, however, wasn't particularly impressed by such show; she saw that Judith and Pansy had expected that of her; but she was determined not to exhibit a surprise that would imply any changes in her mother's and her condition.
— from Linda Condon by Joseph Hergesheimer

All the relief from it that she had got lay in her exertions to obtain a post for Robin which would give him some useful and necessary job and prevent his exposure to the grim Moloch that sat in flaming hunger along the battle-line in France.
— from Robin Linnet by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson