“I’ll pay attention all right,” rejoined Rudie, and glowered his defiance at the fellow who had volunteered to impart his superior knowledge to the squad.
— from Down the Ice, and Other Winter Sports Stories by Harold M. (Harold Morrow) Sherman

Casper went straight to a restaurant and got his dinner, and with a cigar for company took up his usual hiding-place in the doorway and waited to see what was going to happen.
— from The Haunted Mine by Harry Castlemon

Ill-fated was he, and yet he had birds of good omen when he fared away, birds on the right; wherefore I sped him gladly on his road, and gladly he departed, and the heart of us twain hoped yet to meet in friendship on a day and to give splendid gifts.'
— from The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer

He gazed for some time by the light of the lamp on the tired hands, the horny hands, seamed with scars gained working for his family for their support and education—the hands that had never known discouragement, and, impelled by respect and grief, he did a thing unknown at La Fromentière, now that the sons were grown up and the mother dead; he came close in the shadow behind his father, leant over him, and kissed the old man's wrinkled brow.
— from Autumn Glory; Or, The Toilers of the Field by René Bazin

Her father was a cordier , or a ship-supply merchant, or both; at all events, he was rich and gave his daughter a most liberal education.
— from Essays from the Chap-Book Being a Miscellany of Curious and interesting Tales, Histories, &c; newly composed by Many Celebrated Writers and very delightful to read. by Various