Through moments sweet and bitter I lived again, through hours of suspense and days of ceaseless watching; through the long months of that first summer when my unhappy love came to me, and on, on, interminably on.
— from The Hand of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer

The fact that they had brought an auto to this part of Cuba, where horses are mostly used, lent color to this supposition.
— from The Dreadnought Boys on Battle Practice by John Henry Goldfrap

Importunate creditors, who could no longer be kept at bay, effected the arrest of John Dickens, who was conveyed forthwith to a prison for debtors in the Borough of Southwark; his last words to his heart-broken son as he was carried off being similar to those despondingly uttered by Mr. Micawber under like circumstances, to the effect that the sun was set upon him for ever.
— from The Dickens Country by Frederic George Kitton

The British now attempted to invade the United States; the Maine coast was occupied, almost without resistance, as far south as the Penobscot; the Americans were attacked at Fort Erie, on the west side of the Niagara; and a force of eighteen thousand men moved up Lake Champlain to Plattsburg.
— from Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Albert Bushnell Hart

Lord George pointed out at the counsel that a further reason for delay lay in the fact that the Mackenzies under Lord Cromarty, the second battalion of the Frasers under the Master of Lovat, the Macphersons under Cluny, the Macgregors under Glengyle, Mackinnon’s followers, and the Glengary Macdonald’s under Barisdale were all on the march to join us and would arrive in the course of a day or two.
— from A Daughter of Raasay: A Tale of the '45 by William MacLeod Raine

The troops entered, and made us leave, carrying the sick and wounded to an [Pg 221] upper room.
— from Saragossa: A Story of Spanish Valor by Benito Pérez Galdós

The trees still rained; the grass emitted a hissing moisture, the air was as wet as if the rain had anchored in it, and never was there a more unhappy looking crowd than the unroofed campers of Lake Hocomo.
— from The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong; Or, Peg of Tamarack Hills by Lilian Garis