“Now leave me alone so that I can try to make a raise.” Elias moved away without a word and was soon swallowed up in the darkness.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Maui, after repeated experiments, made a large kite for himself.
— from Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina by W. D. (William Drake) Westervelt

Manuel went with Mula, a round easy man and a sparse gaunt mule.
— from Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas by R. A. Lafferty

He made a rapid examination, more as a matter of form than anything else, for his first glance had told him that life was extinct.
— from Dawn by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

They are the Affagoulas, Offogoula, Ouféogoulas or "Dog-People" of the later authors, and in 1784 some of them are mentioned as residing eight miles above Pointe Coupée, on W. bank of Mississippi river.
— from A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians, vol. 1 With a Linguistic, Historic and Ethnographic Introduction by Albert S. (Albert Samuel) Gatschet

Jacobi is returned to Germany, I think; and that her niece, La Bettina, is to marry a rich English merchant and settle in London.]
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

I might, as reasonably enjoin Miriam against ever going out of doors, because it is possible that in the street she might be run over; against ever drinking a glass of water, because it is possible that the water might contain a disease-germ.
— from Two Women or One? From the Mss. of Dr. Leonard Benary by Henry Harland

Men of middle age, rather early middle age, remember the two following species of bullying to which they were subjected, and which, perhaps, are obsolescent.
— from Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang