Already, at the mere sight of food, the extraordinary recuperative powers of the theatrical worker had begun to assert themselves.
— from The Little Warrior by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Suddenly the electric lights were switched on from the engine room, and the place blazed up with incandescent lamps.
— from Old Clinkers: A Story of the New York Fire Department by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins

The struggle ahead was not a severe one, for the enemy receded as the British under Colonel Tytler advanced; but Havelock was much harassed by the attempts of the hostile cavalry to get into his rear and plunder his baggage: attempts that required much exertion from his infantry to resist, seeing that the thickly wooded country interfered with the effect of cannon and musketry.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

At dusk Frank and I set out for the Enderly Road, carrying a basket, a small step-ladder, an unlit lantern, a hammer, and a box of tacks.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

So, as it was almost as near one way as it was the other, Mr. Bobbsey consented, and they set off for the elevated railroad.
— from The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City by Laura Lee Hope

Coming to the asylum, Khara in company with those that went before him, saw that slayer of foes, the enraged Rāma, holding his bow.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume Two. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara Kāndam by Valmiki

She felt no bitterness toward her father; there was no bitterness in her heart; there was only the sweetness of fidelity to Edward Rosier, and a strange, exquisite intimation that she could prove it better by remaining single than even by marrying him.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by Henry James

The old gun went off with a tremendous roar, and with wild shrieks of fear the enemy ran on faster than ever, if that were possible—all but two whom the grapeshot had struck.
— from The War-Trail Fort: Further Adventures of Thomas Fox and Pitamakan by James Willard Schultz

After the Ship of Fools the Eclogues rank second in importance in a consideration of Barclay's writings.
— from The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Sebastian Brant