“Some are caught,” said the sergeant, quite unconcerned; and bound the fellow’s hands with the rope which he had stretched across the road to entrap the Jew.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

She quickly undressed and bathed, her teeth chattering with the cold, but before the caravaners were awake was back in camp, gathering wood for the fire.
— from Madcap by George Gibbs

Beguiling the way, little more than a quarter of a mile, by gentle converse upon familiar, yet to them interesting subjects, they reached the busy, murmuring river,—now stealing quietly under a bank,—now chafed in its passage over a few stones,—here eddying past a rock and covered with white foam,—there widening out into a little pool, partly natural, partly artificial, the glassy surface of which was broken into circles by the rapid rising of the trout, which eagerly leaped after the flies that sported upon it.
— from Tippoo Sultaun: A tale of the Mysore war by Meadows Taylor

In no way can respect for the courts be so quickly undermined as by teaching the public through the action of a judge himself that there is reason for the loss of such respect.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

There are flowers in Whitman, too, but they are amid the rocks or under the trees, and seem quite unpremeditated and by the way, and never the main concern.
— from Whitman: A Study by John Burroughs

Neither adversary stays quiet under a blow.
— from My Year of the Great War by Frederick Palmer

I was a-steerin' and I steered him steady, closer, closer, alongside a'most, and give his iron the best chance possible; but it grazed off, and she settled quietly under, all but her head.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Please let me slip quietly upstairs and bring down my own things instead.
— from Editha's Burglar: A Story for Children by Frances Hodgson Burnett

For twenty years, she had obstinately refused to allow herself to be photographed; she dreaded the professional [Pg 10] indiscretion of amateur photographers; and no sooner did she perceive a camera aimed in her direction than she quickly unfurled a black feather fan and modestly concealed her face, leaving nothing visible above the feathers but her great, wide, never-to-be-forgotten eyes, which had retained all the splendour and fire of her youth.
— from Their Majesties as I Knew Them Personal Reminiscences of the Kings and Queens of Europe by Xavier Paoli

Upon the night of Harry's disappearance there had been an unusual commotion in the house, and a recklessness of speech quite uncommon; and before morning it was decided that Smug should secure the services of this valuable nurse at an early hour, as they must have 'another hand.'
— from Against Odds: A Detective Story by Lawrence L. Lynch