Tanamkan tahi besi, biji timah, buah kras (atau gorek), bliong patah, duit satu [ 601 ] sen. Nanti, kalau lain orang samua sudah pulang berdiri dekat lobang-nya, ambilkan tanah itu tiga kepal, di-genggam paling ka blakang katakan “Al-salam ʿaleikum.”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Katherine, looking over Sherry’s shoulder, noticing with a start of surprise that the man had snow white hair.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House by Hildegard G. Frey

Looking down she saw the kitchen; looking outward she saw a great cut through the cliffs where they seemed to fall apart in a steep sided ravine, and through this she looked out and down over her forests.
— from The Short Cut by Jackson Gregory

No one must know, lest our secret should be discovered—for we well knew all our relations would be unanimous in disapproval.
— from William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Compiled by His Wife Elizabeth A. Sharp by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Amelia) Sharp

He contributed much to scientific literature and was a well known lecturer on scientific subjects.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

I have been for thirty years in India and am going back again in a month, and nothing pleased me more than to find this keen love of sport still existing.’
— from Cricket by A. G. (Allan Gibson) Steel

The reason I went to tea was because in her note to me the lady mentioned that she had read my book of ghost tales, and that she was interested in ghosts in general and St Andrews ghosts in particular, and that she knew lots of such stories in the days of her girlhood in St Andrews, now about 85 years ago.
— from St. Andrews Ghost Stories Fourth Edition by William Thomas Linskill

[221] He spied Katherine looking over Sherry’s shoulder at that moment, and held out the handbag, again lifting his cap as he did so.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House by Hildegard G. Frey