Till the storm had subsided and a new dose of the sedative had been given, Sally and Old Jack stood waiting in sympathetic pain—you know what it is when you can do nothing.
— from Somehow Good by William De Morgan

Just so, while in some parts of Brazil the Indians are still laboriously polishing their stone hatchets, in other parts the planters are digging up the precisely similar stone hatchets of earlier generations, and religiously preserving them in their houses as undoubted thunderbolts.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, January 1885 by Various

As John stood within its sacred precincts the night before he was to be married, he thought how the glorious presence of his beautiful wife would make it a haven of rest and happiness.
— from John Stevens' Courtship: A Story of the Echo Canyon War by Susa Young Gates