When the evening shadows were falling over the almost palatial home of Ruth Wakefield, the young girl whom she had begged to come to her climbed the rugged height upon which the former United States Consul had erected his residence hoping to occupy it long after his term of office should expire as he had found the climate very beneficial to the health of his entire family, as it seemed, and desired to have a fitting place of abode during the childhood of his only and much-loved child, who, now, a sorrowing widow and a humiliated wife, was sitting idly waiting to receive poor Estrella, not knowing, certainly, just what she would do or say when she had to really face the situation into which she had been forced by untoward circumstances.
— from An American by Belle Willey Gue

At last, after a musical performance which served as interlude, the famous raconteur , Sukeroku, continued his elaborate historical romance, dealing with a Japanese Perkin Warbeck, whose pretensions to the Shōgunate had caused much dissension among the adherents of the Tokugawa dynasty.
— from Japanese Plays and Playfellows by Osman Edwards

“Tom felt every hair on his head as stiff as a pump-handle; and scarcely crediting his ears, he returned a searching look at the cat, who very quietly proceeded in a sort of nasal twang— “'Tom Connor,' says she.
— from Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life by Samuel Lover

Suppose Cook, his employer, had really given him the money, and had no intention of wrongfully accusing him—what then?
— from Mark Gildersleeve: A Novel by John S. Sauzade