Those who have remained at camp today have been busily engaged in dressing skins for cloathing, notwithstanding that many of them have their feet so mangled and bruised with the stones and rough ground over which they passed barefoot, that they can scarcely walk or stand; at least it is with great pain they do either.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

As he did so a rare gleam of light came in through the open archway of the throbbing machine-shed, and the Lord of the Dynamos, as he whirled and roared, was radiant with pale gold.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

On the demand of the few dhirems, he offered to the miller his sword, and royal girdle, of inesturable value.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

To this she answered rather greedily: 'Oh, really next I think I'll have Gay windows all about, With roses peeping in, you know, And babies peeping out.'
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

King Charles I. granted to the Earl of Kinnoull as a quartering of augmentation: "Azure, a unicorn salient argent, armed, maned, and unguled or, within a bordure of the last charged with thistles of Scotland and roses gules of England dimidiated."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

This was a person or, more accurately speaking, a Russian gentleman of a particular kind, no longer young, qui faisait la cinquantaine , as the French say, with rather long, still thick, dark hair, slightly streaked with gray and a small pointed beard.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Well,” said Mick, sipping a renewed glass of gin twist and leaning back in his chair, “say what they please, there’s nothing like life.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

"She's all right," growled Otto uncomfortably.
— from Anderson Crow, Detective by George Barr McCutcheon

Doesn’t she shed a rosy glow over life?
— from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James

I believe no man was ever more victimized in the way of being asked to "sit:" indeed, it was probably from so many of them being of this kind that the opportunity of securing a really good one was lost.
— from Horae subsecivae. Rab and His Friends, and Other Papers by John Brown

"I see a rising ground on the left.
— from Sophia: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

All the way, they had before them to the southward a rich glow on the horizon like the sunrise of a fine morning at home.
— from Farthest North The Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition by Charles Lanman

Here the joy of battle, even though it had resulted in defeat, actually spread a retrospective glow over the mind of the speaker, for, with her saucepan resting on her one hip and her dishcloth on the other, she was forgetting her work in the glory of narration.
— from The Loves of Ambrose by Margaret Vandercook