One was that they had found the railway FIRST—on that first, wonderful morning when the house and the country and the moors and rocks and great hills were all new to them.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

I felt my anger rise, and gave him back look for look.
— from Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman

"Won't give it to me then?" asked Bob. "Give yer nothing," the farmer boy started to 167 answer, but before he had time to finish, Bob had made a rush and grabbed him round the waist.
— from The Golden Boys and Their New Electric Cell by L. P. (Levi Parker) Wyman

If I'm discovered, you three make a rush and get hold of the muskets.
— from Jack Hardy: A Story of English Smugglers in the Days of Napoleon by Herbert Strang

At Maestricht he reappointed Margaret as regent, and gave her a Council presided over by Philippe de Bourgogne, Bishop of Utrecht, and Érard de la Marck, Bishop of Liége.
— from The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne

She had hidden away the poor girls in an attic under the hay, but Bayard soon set her mind at rest, and gave her his knightly word that her house would be as safe as a sanctuary.
— from Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach by Christopher Hare

The wind would go down with the tide probably, and then he would make another raft and get home as quickly as he could with his flour.
— from Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham

At the end of that time John P. Greene took his horses and wagon and carried my family up to Quincy, forty miles, and rented a good house, where I found her on my leaving Missouri.
— from Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

Poor, unhappy woman, who sought comfort far from me, who alone could set her mind at rest and give her peace.
— from The Confession of a Fool by August Strindberg

There was a majesty in King Lear’s madness after Regan and Goneril, his daughters, had persuaded him to banish their sister, Cordelia, and all the friends of the drama have been thrilled with that spectacle.
— from Bible Characters by Dwight Lyman Moody