Personally I have had occasion to use it in several cases of malarial fever in the town of San Mateo near Manila.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Sometimes inaudibly, sometimes in loud and penetrating tones which arouse the sympathetic curiosity of my family, I tell it over and over, to an imaginary hearer.
— from How to Tell Stories to Children, and Some Stories to Tell by Sara Cone Bryant

As a grey and wretched dawn came in with a cold and dispiriting rain there came to the ears of little Boudru the steady champing of marching feet in the street below.
— from War and the Weird by Forbes Phillips