The lamps across his streets had a portentously elastic swing with them.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

[147] In her hand she held a pocket electric searchlight, across the front of which had been affixed a circular bit of blue glass.
— from The Blue Lights: A Detective Story by Frederic Arnold Kummer

The Queen had immediately summoned Fakredeen to her side, and there passed between them some hurried and perturbed explanations; subsequently she addressed some inquiries to Tancred, to which he replied without reserve.
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

In terms of value, the United States has a potential export surplus of minerals about twice as large as that of all the rest of the world put together.
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

"I am sure, papa," Miss Granger whimpered by-and-by, not quite able to refrain from some expression of ill-temper, "I have scarcely had a pleasant evening since you have known the Lovels.
— from The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Every muscle was strained in order to sustain herself and prevent entire suffocation, the least movement causing cruel wounds by means of the prongs in her mouth.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage

Books there were none, for Mars had had no time for reading since his arrival; paper, envelopes, some open letters were on the bureau with her envelope, but the letter it had contained was gone.
— from Kitty's Conquest by Charles King