One at least expects some sort of rapid and exciting action.
— from The Note-Book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood

Before long Evan showed signs of restlessness.
— from A Canadian Bankclerk by Jack Preston

Professor Pares was privileged to visit the Galician battle-fields in October, and his impressions are of all the more interest from the fact that we have little else save scrappy official reports to go upon.
— from The Campaign in Russian Poland by Percy Cross Standing

The eye, in being slightly notched on the upper and lower edge, shows signs of really consisting of two eyes, which I believe is always normally the case; it is rather larger, in the proportion of 13 to 11, being 13/12,000 of an inch in diameter, than in S. vulgare ; and from the almost perfect transparency of the integuments, is far more conspicuous than in that species.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

Laboratory experiments showed speed of response to environmental temperature to be inversely proportional to bulk; hatchlings could be chilled or warmed more than twice as fast as adults and were active within a narrower range of temperature.
— from Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler