The children had nobody but themselves to play with, and nothing much to do all day long save to pick limpets for their Great-Grannie’s ducks, and to help her a bit in the houseplace and in the garden, which grew very little except potatoes, cabbages, herbs, and gillyflowers.
— from The Piskey-Purse: Legends and Tales of North Cornwall by Enys Tregarthen

He looked eager, passionate, cunning, hard as steel, and that strange brightness of elation slowly shaded to a dark, brooding menace.
— from The Border Legion by Zane Grey