Knowing its nature, the assailed levels his piece, and in an instant leaves the assailant turning a thousand somersaults until its strength is spent, and, is at last, wriggling on the ground.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
It was the first time she had ever heard a word of self-reproach upon his lips; the first time, though she knew it not, that actual love inspired him, entering as it were through that breach in the wall of overbearing pride that girt him round.
— from Greatheart by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
Everyone was back at the kopje in no time, and Lord Chesham sent out Lord Scarborough with one squadron, and Colonel Mahon with another.
— from The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 by Filson Young
Every one knows I never told a lie in my life!"
— from The Robber, A Tale. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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