we saw a great number of the Curloos, some Grains, ducks, prarie larks and several speceis of sparrows common to the praries.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

And divers smoked superb pipes decorated With amber mouths of greater price or less; And several strutted, others slept, and some Prepared for supper with a glass of rum.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

But unfortunately the talker was now subordinated to another Legrandin, whom he kept carefully hidden in his breast, whom he would never consciously exhibit, because this other could tell stories about our own Legrandin and about his snobbishness which would have ruined his reputation for ever; and this other Legrandin had replied to me already in that wounded look, that stiffened smile, the undue gravity of his tone in uttering those few words, in the thousand arrows by which our own Legrandin had instantaneously been stabbed and sickened, like a Saint Sebastian of snobbery: "Oh, how you hurt me!
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

From this room, which is paved like a street, sometimes one, sometimes two smaller ones, are enclosed at one end.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The farmer first cut one rod wide all round the square, thus leaving a smaller square of standing corn in the middle of the field.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Grandcourt had meant to stay till evening; he wished to curtail his visit, but there was no suitable train earlier than the one he had arranged to go by, and he had still to speak to Lydia on the second object of his visit, which like a second surgical operation seemed to require an interval.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

Impulsively the Blight waved her hand to him and I could not help waving my hat; but he sat like a statue and, like a statue, sat on, simply looking after us as we were hurried along, until horse, broken shaft, and shoulders sank out of sight.
— from A Knight of the Cumberland by Fox, John, Jr.

It is a great many islands, large and small, scattered over some hundreds of miles of ocean; but they are so many and near each other often, and so surrounded with interlacing coral reefs, that navigation there is in a kind of network of channels.
— from The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner

All this time we were keeping our eyes on the Japanese, who had landed and seemed sort of surprised they did it so easy.
— from Mark Tidd's Citadel by Clarence Budington Kelland

They've been too quiet of late: a sure sign of something brewing, like a calm after a storm, as brother Sol might say."
— from Jack Hardy: A Story of English Smugglers in the Days of Napoleon by Herbert Strang

Look at some statements of Scripture concerning it, and you will see that it was chiefly of that quality.
— from Love's Final Victory Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis of Scripture and Reason by Horatio

The leaves are shortly stalked, ovate, serrate, seldom more than an inch long; and the flowers are nearly globular, with small teeth, drooping on short stalks, and placed singly in the axils of the leaves.
— from Field and Woodland Plants by William S. Furneaux

There are several parts as a rule, but they wander in and out of one another at will, and every now and then a single voice will break away, and embroider a little improvisation upon the melody that is like a sudden scatter of spray from the crest of a rolling breaker.
— from In the Strange South Seas by Beatrice Grimshaw