From a convenient spot he kept watch of the boat, till presently a straggling company appeared loaded with billets.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

They say that, though so large and powerful, and so courageous against larger animals, it is afraid of a mouse; that its nature is so cold that it will never seek the company of the female until, wandering in the direction of Paradise, it meets with the plant called the mandrake, and eats of it, and that each female bears but one young one in her life.
— from Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by W. F. (William Francis) Dawson

In a similar way the Romans had organizations of capitalists and laborers, religious associations, political and social clubs, and leagues of veterans.
— from The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Frank Frost Abbott

In response to this popular demand, General Ambrose Burnside was appointed to take McClellan's place, and a more utterly unfitted man for prosecuting a successful campaign against Lee could scarcely have been selected.
— from On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Frederick Trevor Hill

Paul and Steinmetz carefully avoided looking at each other.
— from The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman

Are our people as slangy, coarse and low-toned as the average newspaper is?
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, May 1884, No. 8 by Chautauqua Institution

And as they ne'er agreed among themselves, He suffered more than if with fifty elves; When one was pleased, another soon complained: At length to quit the nuns he was constrained.
— from Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 14 by Jean de La Fontaine

A hippopotamus had wantonly charged the canoe, and seizing it in his mouth, together with the poor old blind sheik who could not avoid the danger, crunched the frail boat to pieces, and so crushed and lacerated the old man that, although he was rescued by his comrades, he died during the night.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

Mr. Wise opened a correspondence with persons at Silver Cliff after learning of the presence of Gates at that point, and had the fellow arrested.
— from Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains Reminiscences by General D. J. Cook, Chief of the Rocky Mountains Detective Association by D. J.‏ ‎(David J.) Cook

With that view Walter made a round of the leading universities of Germany, conversed with the professors and students, collected a long list of the questions that were being debated in that day in those seats of learning, and sent the list to Behmen, asking him to give his mind to them and try to answer them.
— from Jacob Behmen: An Appreciation by Alexander Whyte

Only one record has been obtained from the park, a specimen collected at Longmire in September, 1937.
— from Mammals of Mount Rainier National Park by Russell K. Grater