He stood up beside her and smoothed her hair with his soft, magnetic hand.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

177 Death's Messengers In ancient times a giant was once travelling on a great highway, when suddenly an unknown man sprang up before him, and said, "Halt, not one step farther!"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

She had not gone many steps when the big car slid silently up beside her, and she heard a voice say, "Can't I give you a lift to Galvin House?" She turned round and saw a fair-haired girl smiling at her from the car.
— from Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert George Jenkins

He had just entered the building and was chatting with his secretary, when a miscreant named Charles Julias Guiteau stepped up behind him and shot him with a pistol in the back.
— from A New History of the United States The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year by Charles Morris

They are going to—Here Miss Daniels should slip up behind him and snap his ear, but she, too, is far away in spirit.
— from Back Home by Eugene Wood

A milkwhite doe sprang up before him and sportsmanlike, he chased this singular animal
— from Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland

Steve stepped up beside him and showed him an open telegram.
— from At Close Range by Francis Hopkinson Smith