Accordingly, his reign was like the course of a brilliant and rapid meteor, which shoots along the face of Heaven, shedding around an unnecessary and portentous light, which is instantly swallowed up by universal darkness; his feats of chivalry furnishing themes for bards and minstrels, but affording none of those solid benefits to his country on which history loves to pause, and hold up as an example to posterity.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Knowing Dereham’s extraordinary shyness and his great dislike of meeting strangers, Gordon, while Dereham was trying to get as close to the deer as they would allow, expressed to me his surprise at the terms of cordial friendship that sprang up between us during that walk.
— from Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic by James Douglas

It sprang up between us, dear reader, as a passing illustrative invention.
— from A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It had blown it skyward and then, upon second thoughts, had brought it back again and deposited it not right side up, but upside down.
— from The Way of the Wind by Zoé Anderson Norris

Franky can sit up between us, Deleah—" He was very proud of himself for his forethought in securing Franky.
— from Mrs. Day's Daughters by Mary E. Mann

The setting sun has pierced the veil of mist, and a map of Northern Germany seems unrolled before us, distant cities coming into view one by one.
— from The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. by Henry Blackburn