The field is surrounded by a brick wall, and the owner undertook to put up three other brick walls, so that the neighbours should not be overlooked by each other, but the four tenants insist that there shall be no favouritism, and that each shall have exactly the same length of wall space for his wall fruit trees.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

For with baubles such as these, it is in the everlasting nature of us to play, until the hours slip by and the summons comes for sleep.
— from The City of Beautiful Nonsense by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston

Again he was out upon the platform urging the conductor to greater speed; and when at last Shannondale was reached, he bounded from the car upon the platform before the train stopped, and was collaring Rob, the coachman, and demanding of him to know what was the matter with Jerrie, and why he had been sent for.
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

I must leave our little group round the camp fire, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the absent one, and carry my readers away to follow the fortunes of Red Cloud, whom we left far out upon the plains, under the vision, at a long distance, of the watchful eyes of many Assineboine enemies.
— from Red Cloud, the Solitary Sioux: A Story of the Great Prairie by Butler, William Francis, Sir

He suspected that gentleman of an aggressive determination to achieve wealth, and the power which comes with it, for the purpose of using that power upon those beneath him.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

When the gas was turned up, for some reason or other her eye had fallen at once upon the photograph upon the top of the piano.
— from The Drunkard by Guy Thorne

As a result of this reasoning, the early morning of January 7th, 1899, saw the three of us trudging patiently up the Black Sail Pass in a tremendous downpour of rain and sleet; but, notwithstanding this, with the climber’s cheery optimism, a ‘fair-up’ was confidently prophesied.
— from Rock-climbing in the English Lake District Third Edition by Owen Glynne Jones

Once the link of race had been appealed to, of course every attack that reflected in any way upon the character of the fighters was resented by the whole nation as a matter of honour, and that was what led John Dillon, provoked by countless insinuations and accusations to his onslaught upon the principle underlying the wholesale executions and deportations.
— from Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics by Redmond-Howard, L. G., (Louis George)

Abdullah stooped down, and hastily divesting one of the fallen Arabs of his burnous, he threw it over his own uniform, then picked up the flag, and walked northwards some thirty yards along the bluff to the edge of the declivity, whence he obtained a view of the open space and the forest beyond.
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang

But, as a high priest of the Melchisedek Priesthood has authority to officiate in all the lesser offices he may officiate in the office of Bishop when no literal descendant of Aaron can be found, provided he is called and set apart and ordained unto this power under the hands of the First Presidency of the Melchizedek Priesthood.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 1 Period 1. History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet by Smith, Joseph, Jr.