Poor Emma came up, smiling a wavering smile that was on the edge of tears.
— from Mary Gray by Katharine Tynan

Odors with me, as, I suppose, with other people, have a psychological effect, calling up scenes associated with them.
— from The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

While still pitch dark—two o'clock in the morning—they began to advance on their perilous enterprise, climbing up steep and slippery slopes, and stumbling over boulders, and tripping on loosened stones.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Louis Creswicke