Christianity enjoins a higher and purer ethic than it has ever found in the natural moral standards of any people; it aims at perfection; it treats the least infraction as a violation of the whole law; it regards even corrupt thoughts as sins; it bids us be holy even as He is holy in whose sight the heavens are unclean.
— from Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood

Gas has been found at Wilcox, Johnsonburg and Ridgway, Elk county, taking a slick hand in the game.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin

From this spot on, the last mile resolved itself into a trial of patience and muscle in manœuvring the car round each corner to a sufficiently even—or uneven—keel for the gasoline to run to the engine until the critical point of each turn was surmounted.
— from The Spell of Japan by Isabel Anderson

In answer, the resourceful Empress, careful to appear suitably frightened by Charles’ hints, declared her willingness to do all she could to promote his wishes, begging only a little time in which to bring the Queen round to a more yielding frame of mind; a favour that Charles could not help but grant her.
— from Italian Yesterdays, vol. 2 by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

“That so?” responded Earle, coming to a sudden standstill.
— from In Search of El Dorado by Harry Collingwood

He rose, evidently considering the affair settled.
— from The Woman-Haters by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

In answer, the resourceful Empress, careful to appear suitably frightened by Charles’s hints, declared her willingness to do all she could to promote his wishes, begging only a little time in which to bring the Queen round to a more yielding frame of mind; a favour that Charles could not help but grant her.
— from More Italian Yesterdays by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

The reader will observe that it requires a considerable pause after the fourth foot; at which place one might divide it, and so reduce each couplet to a stanza of four lines, similar to the following examples:— PART OF A SONG, IN DIALOGUE.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown