However they, or the spirits of them hovering in the air, might scowl and glower at such removes as current Kansas or Kentucky life and forms, the latter may by no means repudiate or leave out the former.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Sancho kept looking about for the Distressed One, to see what her face was like without the beard, and if she was as fair as her elegant person promised; but they told him that, the instant Clavileno descended flaming through the air and came to the ground, the whole band of duennas with the Trifaldi vanished, and that they were already shaved and without a stump left.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Despise not Daśaratha, he Is a kind lord and friend to thee.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Keane listened acutely for the cyphers of the code.
— from The Phantom Airman by Rowland Walker

Wasn't the Kurnel like a father to her, an it's not every wan would remember it; may the blessin iv heaven go with her!
— from Kate Vernon: A Tale. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Mrs. Alexander

DEAR MADAM, Accept my best thanks for your kind letter, and for the books you have been so good as to send me.
— from Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Margot Asquith

At first he thought of kicking Leather, a feat that his suppliant position made extremely convenient, if not tempting.
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

'You mustn't laugh, Ralph,' said Kate, looking aside, for the comic side of the question had suddenly dawned upon her.
— from A Mummer's Wife by George Moore

They had been tramping together across the head of the valley as they talked about their experiences, with Chris keeping a keen lookout ahead for the first glimpse of his father, and giving an occasional look up towards the edge of the cliff, which he noted was wonderfully broken up into hollows and prominences, rifts and gorges that had been invisible from a distance, and all overhung by a level band of apparently impassable rock.
— from The Peril Finders by George Manville Fenn

We older ones had a secret understanding that we were to keep Lloyd away from the sea, but strive as we might, even though we left the hero stranded in (p. 070) the middle of the Desert of Sahara, Lloyd never failed to have him sailing the bounding main again before his allotted two minutes expired.
— from The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez