The charges are all general: that he has a rebel wife and rebel relations, that he sympathies with rebels, and that he exercises rebel influence.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

As she took up the reins after this plaintive remark and turned her eyes reproachfully upon Mrs. Powell's countenance, beaming upon the parting guest from the broad doorway, another vehicle whirled around the curve and stopped, and two beautiful pairs of dark eyes smiled upon her, as Vivian himself sprang out and put his arm about Amanda with a zeal that was totally unnecessary to the furthering of that active damsel's descent to the ground.
— from Southern Hearts by Florence Hull Winterburn

The field was a large one; for the purse was rich and the honor even richer.
— from Jack Ballington, Forester by John Trotwood Moore

The Matabili had informed them that in three days' journey they would fall in with the giraffe, which they were in search of, and as there would be some risk in crossing the river, and they had every reason to expect that it would soon rise, the question was whether it would be prudent to take over even one of the wagons.
— from The Mission by Frederick Marryat

No one retires alone to his eternal resting-place.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XI.—April, 1851—Vol. II. by Various

He reverted again to his expressionless reverie, out of which exhaled the observation: “I wonder what the present editorial staff could do with that.”
— from Success: A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

How, by road and trail, he ever reached the Valley of the Death Stone Harry never knew.
— from The Perils of Pauline by Charles Goddard

The Matabili had informed them that in three days’ journey they would fall in with the giraffe, which they were in search of; and as there would be some risk in crossing the river, and they had every reason to expect that it would soon rise, the question was whether it would be prudent to take over even one of the waggons.
— from The Mission; or Scenes in Africa by Frederick Marryat

I no longer troubled my head about them; and although I had reason to know that there were still some of them in the neighbourhood, my late sanguinary razzia among them had evidently rendered them afraid to come within reach of me.
— from The Boy Tar by Mayne Reid