The same freshness, the same robust, energetic slenderness, the identical flames of arrogant vitality in her green eyes.
— from The Torrent (Entre Naranjos) by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

In truth it has simply dropped upon the ground by a long thread which had been instantaneously emitted, and had maintained the Aranead in its remarkable exit, so that its fall was not only harmless, but its return to the web assured.
— from The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay

Her voice was a mezzo-soprano, naturally full of defects, and, to the very last, she was obliged to go through her exercises every day to keep it flexible; but by the tremendously {52} severe discipline to which her father's teaching subjected her, its range extended so that it finally reached a compass of three octaves.
— from Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry Charles Lahee

It was then that President Lincoln announced his policy upon the subject, which was to restore each state to its former position in the Union as soon as one-tenth of its population had taken the oath of allegiance prescribed in his amnesty proclamation and had organized a state government pledged to abolish slavery.
— from The Reconstruction of Georgia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1901 by Edwin C. (Edwin Campbell) Woolley

They travelled thither by the Isthmus of Panama, visited Peru and Chili, and returned home along the usual route by the Horn; reaching England some time in Feb. 1875.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Yessuh—pieces of that rotary essentially scattered themselves in four directions besides backwards and fo'wards.
— from The Blind Man's Eyes by William MacHarg