“Never mind that,” answered Jack, unconsciously looking upwards, “Some one else will.”
— from Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston

“Come along, then,” said I, jumping up, “let us start at once,” and we started.
— from At the Court of the Amîr: A Narrative by John Alfred Gray

Leuthen, a straggling hamlet of over a mile in length, and with two or three streets of scattered houses, barns, farm buildings, and two churches, was crowded with troops; ready to fight but unable to do so, line being jammed upon line until sometimes a hundred deep, pressed constantly behind by freshly arriving battalions, and in front by the advancing Prussians.
— from With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Jerry Utway looked up, straight into the muzzle of a double-barrelled shotgun aimed directly at his head.
— from The Mystery at Camp Lenape by Carl Saxon