At all events Verkimier had reason to believe in the truth of it at that time, for adventures came down on him, as it were, in a sort of deluge, more or less astounding, insomuch that his enthusiastic spirit, bathing, if we may say so, in an ocean of scientific delight, pronounced Sumatra to be the very paradise of the student of nature.
— from Blown to Bits; or, The Lonely Man of Rakata by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

He took out his watch and looked at it, then his eye swept the broad row of trains in the gloomy, barnlike station.
— from The Short Line War by Samuel Merwin

No sound but the steady splash of the oars, or perhaps a voice from one of the many vessels that lay anchored in the harbour, each showing its lantern-gleams.
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing

Phelps had brought the photograph along and showed it right and left, asking if they had ever seen anybody like that.
— from Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne