Finally the pursuers were near enough so that one reached out to catch hold of the canoe when Denny’s men paddled quickly out of reach and increased their speed to a furious rate, continuing to paddle with all their might until a long distance from their threatening visitors.
— from Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Emily Inez Denny

After being tempest-tossed for three weeks, they dropped anchor in the harbour of Quilleboeuf in France, having narrowly escaped shipwreck, their only remaining provisions being one gallon of beer and a cask of water.
— from The Land-War in Ireland: A History for the Times by James Godkin

He did not even speak to, or recognize, his fair attendant, Alibamo.
— from The Border Spy; or, The Beautiful Captive of the Rebel Camp A Story of the War by Harry Hazelton

Which—if not exactly satisfying to our reader’s sense of poetic justice—is Life.
— from The Ruby Sword: A Romance of Baluchistan by Bertram Mitford

And now, if Pope , or 408 Swift , or Fielding , or Johnson , or Sterne , were to rise from the grave, MS. in hand, the most adventurous publisher would pass a sleepless night before he undertook the risk of paper and print; would advise a small edition, and exact a sum down in ready money, to be laid out in puffs and advertisements! ‘Even then, though we may get rid of a few copies to the circulating libraries,’ he would observe, ‘do not expect, Sir, to obtain readers.
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Various