He informed me that the negroes of the district were well acquainted with it; and that they represented it as making a noise, not unlike the crowing of a cock, and as being addicted to preying on poultry.
— from The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse

" Therefore men are not now under a necessity of precept to make oblations.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Half-tipsy men and noisome, naked urchins seemed to have sprung from everywhere.
— from I Will Repay by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

As each shell rushed through the air it made a noise not unlike an express train passing under a bridge.
— from Khartoum Campaign, 1898; or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh

"Come to think of it," said the man, apparently noticing nothing unusual, "I guess it always is on a Wednesday they come by."
— from The Apartment Next Door by William Johnston

You are advised to go to bed in the dark, as a light would attract the mosquitoes, and never, never, under any circumstances, to get into bed until you have assured yourself that there are no mosquitoes inside the [Pg 147] curtains, though the proprietor cheerfully adds: “But you can only get fever from the black-and-white-striped ones.”
— from The Last Frontier: The White Man's War for Civilisation in Africa by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

In spite of the low temperature we did sleep this second night, for we were tired men, and Nature nursed us somehow into a sort of mild unconsciousness.
— from South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron

Maria Angelina needed no urging.
— from The Innocent Adventuress by Mary Hastings Bradley