“No, indeed!” cried Kate, sitting down at the piano, while the colonel leaned back in his easy chair and gave himself up to an hour's unmingled delight.
— from The Man from Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa by Ralph Connor

We at once set off, therefore, discussing as we went plans for rescuing Norah, in case Kanimapo should not have succeeded in doing so.
— from The Young Llanero: A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela by William Henry Giles Kingston

They are housed at night in circular kraals, surrounded by a low rush fence, the ostrich, despite his fleetness and strength of legs, being unable to mount or jump over any obstacle, and turned out during the day into the veldt in charge of a herd.
— from Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Louise Vescelius Sheldon

Now I can keep silence no longer.
— from The Socialist by Guy Thorne