This morning Bob was almost the first passenger that left the steamer, and Barlow knew him at once.
— from A Sailor in Spite of Himself by Harry Castlemon

When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes blind With lightning you went from me, and I could find Nothing to make a song about but kings, Helmets, and swords, and half-forgotten things That were like memories of you—but now We’ll out, for the world lives as long ago; 12 And while we’re in our laughing, weeping fit, Hurl helmets, crowns, and swords into the pit.
— from The Green Helmet and Other Poems by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

Rev. R. B. Howard, while in the Theological Seminary at Bangor, knew her as Nina Foster, “a golden-haired, fair-cheeked, gracefully formed little Sabbath-school scholar of ten, at the Central Church.
— from Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux by Stephen Return Riggs

The Hospital des Convalescens , which was resolved to be made use of, is found to be too little; it is necessary to enlarge it, by joining to it a Building called the Fas , which stands very near it; a thousand Things are to be done, and yet none could easily be made to stir about them: M. Moustier is obliged to repair thither, and to abide upon the Spot; and by keeping Hands at Work Night and Day, he makes such Expedition, that in 48 Hours he gets it put in Order, all Necessaries sorted and laid ready, and the whole made fit to receive the Sick.
— from A brief Journal of what passed in the City of Marseilles, while it was afflicted with the Plague, in the Year 1720 by Pichatty de Croislainte

He took me to see the Abbey, and told me about the Last of all the Abbots, who was so kind that the people would not let him be sent away, but kept him always hidden here and there among them.
— from Sweethearts at Home by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

If this experiment were conducted on a duly extensive scale round London; say at Brixton, Kensington, Holloway and Stepney; there can be no doubt that a cyclone would be established, and the fog effectually dissipated.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 20, 1892 by Various

While Hugues played vigorously with his body, stooping, and moving, and stepping aside, but keeping his arm stiff, and using his wrist much, M. le Marquis held his body erect and still, but moved his arm, and, fencing with a school correctness, as if he held a foil, disdained all artifices save those of the weapon.
— from The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman

From Gimblet, and from Messrs. Findlay & Ince, they heard that by the will which the detective had found all Lord Ashiel's money and estate were left to the adopted daughter of Sir Arthur Byrne, known hitherto as Juliet Byrne, with a suggestion that she should provide for his nephews to the extent she should think fit.
— from The Ashiel mystery: A Detective Story by Bryce, Charles, Mrs.