I had already been kept long enough in suspense, and suspecting that Wilkins did not mean to return, knew that a lengthened adjournment would be almost equally as disastrous as a sentence.
— from The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss

Then, peering round a moment with its bright keen little eyes, it sprang lightly up—one jump to the bench, the second to the desk on which Johannes was writing.
— from The Quest The authorized translation from the Dutch of De kleine Johannes by Frederik van Eeden