In Zeisberger’s Delaware dictionary, however, we find waloh or walok , signifying a cave or hole, while in the “Walam Olum” we have oligonunk rendered “at the place of caves,” the region being further described as a buffalo land on a pleasant plain, where the Lenape′, advancing seaward from a less abundant northern region, at last found food (Walam Olum, pp. 194–195).
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The first instruction which Pantagruel gave concerning it was to divest and despoil the stalk and stem thereof of all its flowers and seeds, to macerate and mortify it in pond, pool, or lake water, which is to be made run a little for five days together (Properly—‘lake water, which is to be made stagnant, not current, for five days together.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Here I walked on for some time, but could see little on either side, it being now near harvest, and the corn rising at least forty feet.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

“What then?” “Monsieur de Morcerf has received a letter from Franz, announcing his immediate return.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The second of the two was that they were not far from expecting that they themselves, also, might yet suffer some terrible injury, so unholy were both his words and his actions: therefore many, cut to the heart with grief at the thought of reality and possibility, wished that they themselves belonged to the number of men already dead outside, and so might secure a respite at last from fear.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Scattered about the boat, in dreamy and reposeful attitudes, lay five fellows, the man who was steering having a particularly restful appearance.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

half nebulous: The moonlight streams o'er the blue-shadowed roofs; A lovely frame for this wild battle-scene; Beneath the vapor's floating scarves, the Seine Trembles, mysterious, like a magic mirror, And, shortly, you shall see what you shall see!
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

On their right and left flanks fell a storm of shot from the red-skins who had hid back of trees, rocks, and shrubs.
— from The Life of George Washington. In Words of One Syllable by Josephine Pollard

Tommy won in the spelling match, and Demi read a little French fable so well that Uncle Teddy was charmed.
— from Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

“I’m so pleased and so proud of you, Ruth,” was Anne Follett’s affectionate tribute, as Ruth emerged, rosy and laughing, from Frances’ devastating embrace.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at Driftwood Heights by Margaret Love Sanderson

Give us good recruits, at least five feet seven, a good model for a floating-battery, and a gun to take effect at five thousand yards,—and Whigs and Tories, High and Low Church, the poets, astronomers, and critics, may settle it among themselves."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

For the space of about another minute then the young girl looked confused; after that a gush of recollections flashed across her mind, and the feeling that she was really at last free from Jacob Gray, came across her heart with so much happiness and joy, that covering her beautiful face with her small slender hands, she burst into tears and sobbed aloud in her fulness of heart.
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer

No, rather a lens, for from it came amber warmth ... which soon faded, with everything else, into thick, churning fog....
— from Recruit for Andromeda by Stephen Marlowe

Nothing but the special training my class had taken in gymnasium during the previous year, for just such an emergency, pulled me through the long run and long fast following it.
— from The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster by George P. Bissell

One day she received a letter from Folk.
— from All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

He essayed several fantastic steps over the frozen ground, stubbed his toe on a projecting root and lunged forward, falling heavily into a huge snowdrift, his hands and face plowing into the snow.
— from Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Josephine Chase