He gives an anecdote, for instance, of an elephant which, seeing an artillery-man fall from the tumbril of a gun, in such a situation that in a second or two the wheel of the gun carriage must have gone over him, instantly, without any warning from its keeper, lifted the wheel with its trunk and kept it suspended until the carriage had passed clear of the soldier.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

Keeping it stretched upon the cane he gently opened the door, and set the candle in such a position on the mat that the light shone down the corridor.
— from Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy