One of them, for instance, because its pack had slipped beneath it, began to utter strange uncouth cries, kicking and plunging wildly, until it started a stampede among the mules, many of which had probably never seen any of these ungainly beasts before.
— from George Alfred Henty: The Story of an Active Life by George Manville Fenn

“Now, you must burn and shrivel up,” commanded Kitty, and to their intense delight Miss Larkin entered quite into the spirit of the game.
— from Marjorie in Command by Carolyn Wells

After he had been sitting on the Fence for many years, booing those who tried to saw Wood, his Satellites began coaxing him to write something that would show up Charley Klein and Gus Thomas and all the other Four-Flushers who were raking in Royalties under False Pretences.
— from Ade's Fables by George Ade

"An extraordinary amount of destruction and annoyance is annually perpetrated by the somewhat unsociable creatures known as wasps."— Amateur Gardening.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, May 13, 1914 by Various

The Confederates early saw the importance of holding the Mississippi as a water-way, and almost at the outset, seized upon Columbus, Ky., and Belmont, Mo., nearly opposite thereto, as places to be fortified and held.
— from The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by D. H. Fletcher

If Vavasor did ask those questions, he would probably do so upon certain knowledge, and if so, why, in that case, lying would be of no use.
— from Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

“My lord, I was a servant under Captain Kidd and always obeyed [191] his commands, and had no share.
— from The Real Captain Kidd: A Vindication by Cornelius Neale Dalton