Here the danger arose of being spotted by the Turks on the cliff, for even in the darkness the milk-white foam showed up distinctly and made a bad background to the moving seamen.
— from The Fight for Constantinople: A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

"Descobierta" (The), and "Etrevida"— Spanish discovery ships, under Don Alexander Malaspina, at Sydney. 1793.
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc

And once we saw lifted in the sky three steamboats sailing upside down, a mirage ... and, once, a gleaming city in the clouds, that hung there spectrally for about five minutes, then imperceptibly faded out....
— from Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp

As they reached the corner of —— Square, Florence suddenly observed a young woman, very pale, and meanly attired, who, leaning against the iron railing, was fixedly gazing upon her with a look of such utter despair and misery, as excited at once her pity and curiosity.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, October 1849 by Various

She smiled up delightedly at me and crawled out farther from the bed valance.
— from Five Nights: A Novel by Victoria Cross

He got smashed up, driving a motor ambulance, you know.”
— from The Hermit of Far End by Margaret Pedler

I was told in Nagasaki that quite a few American gunners were on their ships—fellows who served under Dewey at Manila and under Sampson and Schley off Cuba."
— from At the Fall of Port Arthur; Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Edward Stratemeyer

Mr. Roden will kindly spare us details as much as possible.”
— from Roden's Corner by Henry Seton Merriman