Dantès, you must tell my uncle that the emperor remembered him, and you will see it will bring tears into the old soldier’s eyes.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The 2nd Vermont, which has advanced 200 yards beyond the crest, rapidly firing, while the Enemy retires, is now, in turn, forced back by the Enemy's hot fire, and is replaced by the 3rd Maine, while the remnant of the 5th moves up to the extreme right of Howard's now single line.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Creeping up quietly to the entrance, Fil and Moro threw stones and oranges and mangoes up to the echoing roof. “Lie down quick,” shouted Fil’s father.
— from Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines by John Stuart Thomson

The young trooper, superintending the loading of the horses, resented the manifest unfriendliness toward the English recruits.
— from A Man of Two Countries by Alice Harriman

They have dynamited our factories and warehouses; they have burned shops and planted bombs on ships; they have thrown trains from the track; they have poisoned the horses and mules upon the transports en route to France; they have fouled the springs of knowledge through their hired reporters; with all the cunning developed by long practice, they have spread their insidious and perilous influences into the remotest regions of the land.
— from The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon by Newell Dwight Hillis

[4] On coming back to Naupaktus, he met the Ætolian Oxylus, son of Andræmôn, returning to his country, after a temporary exile in Elis, incurred for homicide: Oxylus had lost one eye, but as he was seated on a horse, the man and the horse together made up the three eyes required, and he was adopted as the guide prescribed by the oracle.
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote

In this period we find the chief Scottish poets writing in a diction far more unintelligible to the English reader than Chaucer's or Gower's was in the middle of the fourteenth century.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous