It was, indeed, a great yellow Wildcat, and the Woodman thought it must be chasing something, for its ears were lying close to its head and its mouth was wide open, showing two rows of ugly teeth, while its red eyes glowed like balls of fire.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

So they rode on until the eventide, and still the damsel evermore kept chiding Sir Beaumains.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

It was, indeed, a great, yellow wildcat, and the Woodman thought it must be chasing something, for its ears were lying close to its head and its mouth was wide open, showing two rows of ugly teeth, while its red eyes glowed like balls of fire.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

He spread the rubber one upon the ground and placed the woolen one about the youth's shoulders.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

All I have yet been able to discover about the villainous-looking individual here portrayed is the fact that he is said to represent one “Unggas Tĕlang,” who was described to me as an [ 561 ] “old war-chief” ( hulubalang tua ) of the Sea-gypsies ( Orang Laut ) and the Malay pirates.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Haste then, and humbly seek my haughty foe; Tell him, I did not with the Grecians go, Nor did my fleet against his friends employ, Nor swore the ruin of unhappy Troy, Nor mov’d with hands profane his father’s dust: Why should he then reject a suit so just!
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Easy and unstudied as his writing seems, it was, as we have seen, the result of unintermitted trouble and varied modes of working.
— from Bacon by R. W. (Richard William) Church

; the first effort to introduce a large British population, 15 ; public interest in, 23 ; ultimate control of British policy in, 24 ; the decision of cardinal questions dealing with its administration, 34 ; the Dutch population of, 43 , 46 , 49 , 98 , 105 ; Dutch view of the nationalist movement in, 49 ; before and after the Jameson Raid, 68 ; as Lord Milner found it, 69 ; attempts to secure the reunion of under the British flag, 69 ; the British cause in, 71 ; reinforcement of the British garrison in, 94 ; aspirations of the Dutch in, 105 ; despondency of the British population, 107 ; result of the failure of the Bloemfontein Conference on the British population, 172 ; moral weakness of England's position in, 186 ; approval of Lord Milner's policy by the British population, 216 ; dismay of the British population as the Imperial Governments' reported acceptance of the franchise law, 222 ; performance of the British Army in, 323 ; numbers of the British Army in on April 1st, 1900, 323 ; numbers of the British population in who served, 324 ; the task of subduing the entire Dutch population of, 435 ; loyalists in, 447 , 448 ; the manifestation of hostility against the loyalist population of, 464 (note).
— from Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold

With him he had sought the roots of upturned trees and the beds of little creeks and the gray faces of "rock-houses" for signs of the black diamonds.
— from The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John, Jr.

So they rode on until they arrived at the second loop of the river where the knight of the Noonday-Sun flared with his burning shield that blazed so violently that Gareth saw scarlet blots before his eyes as he turned away from it.
— from Tales from Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The stirrups are crossed over the seat, the right one uppermost; then the cincha and cincha strap are crossed above the stirrups, the strap uppermost.
— from Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917. To be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training by United States. War Department

It was possible by properly selecting the rate of undulation, to pass the vibratory impulse from the disintegrators through the glass windows of a car, without damage to the glass itself.
— from Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett Putman Serviss

Ogden did not seem to realize or understand this communication.
— from Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire by Philip Gilbert Hamerton