However, as I was so far from being a tempting morsel, I was allowed to wander about freely, and one day, when all the blacks had gone off upon some expedition leaving only an old man to guard me, I managed to escape from him and plunged into the forest, running faster the more he cried to me to come back, until I had completely distanced him.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

General Slocum, in Atlanta, had likewise sent out, under strong escort, large trains of wagons to the east,
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

I think we have, most of us, seen eyes like these—eyes which one rather avoids meeting, because when met one is startled by the sight of a naked human soul brought so near.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885 by Various

"But, the day this war ends, if you and I are alive, you shall meet me on the field of honour, and but one of us shall ever leave it alive."
— from Wizard Will, the Wonder Worker by Prentiss Ingraham

"Well, just as everything is ready, the can-opener, sharp as a razor, waitin' to open up such effete luxuries as the peer may demand, Bill Ames gets called to California by the sickness of his wife.
— from Judith of the Plains by Marie Manning

We started walking over the upper plateau level, seemingly with nothing in advance of us save empty luminous darkness.
— from The White Invaders by Ray Cummings