A true _pyr_amid or 'flame -mountain,' flaming with steam fires and useful labour over wide continents, usefully towards the Stars, to a certain height;—how much grander than your foolish Cheops Pyramids or Sakhara clay ones!
— from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle

The last one who came up turned about and slammed down the trap-door through which he had gained access to the roof.
— from True To His Colors by Harry Castlemon

Such things did occur at times, when the road was wide enough to admit of it; but much oftener the coachmen did not try to give one another the " go-bye ," except when the leading one was called upon to stop to pick up or put down a passenger, or for any other purpose.
— from An Old Coachman's Chatter, with Some Practical Remarks on Driving by Edward Corbett

All loyal officers were called upon to join the royal standard, and troops at Popayan were hurried south with this object.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

The most striking personage in this group was a very old man, seated on a log of wood, close upon the edge of the water; his head was quite bald, excepting a few gray hairs which were gathered in a tuft at the top, and decorated with a single feather—I think an eagle's feather; his blanket of scarlet cloth was so arranged as to fall round his limbs in graceful folds, leaving his chest and shoulders exposed; he held a green umbrella over his head, (a gift or purchase from some white trader,) and in the other hand a long pipe—and he smoked away, never stirring, nor taking the slightest interest in anything which was going on.
— from Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

“Thank you, Mr. Gashwiler.” No. 4 was made to stop at Simsbury for a young man who was presently commanding a meal in the palatial diner, and who had, before this meal was eaten, looked out with compassion upon two Simsbury-like hamlets that the train rushed by, a blur of small-towners standing on their depot platforms to envy the inmates of that splendid structure.
— from Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson

" "Voted, That if any person makes unnecessary vizits on the Sabeth they shall be Lookt on with Contempt untill they make acknowledgement to the Public."
— from The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England Sunday Gleanings Chiefly From Old Newspapers Of Boston And Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

“Both archdeacons,” said Melville, translating, with a look of withering contempt upon the speaker.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever

The jailer shrugged his shoulders, and led the way through a labyrinth of winding corridors, until they came to a low arched door, on which the moisture stood in great drops; from the other side came a strange roaring sound.
— from The War of Women, Volume 2 by Alexandre Dumas

Then she followed the dog's eyes and saw a queer, little old woman coming up the bank of Singing Water from the north.
— from The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter