How they took their places, Hopping, skipping, unafraid, Darting, rioting about, Squealing, laughing, shouting out!
— from Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Volume 01 October-March, 1912-13 by Various

Arrived at this point, would Milton take his stand upon doctrinaire republicanism, and lose sight of liberty in the attempt to secure equality, as his friends Vane, Overton, Bradshaw would have done?
— from Milton by Mark Pattison

Some four hundred meters below, the scurrying beetlelike activity of the I-A's main field sent up discordant roaring and clattering.
— from Operation Haystack by Frank Herbert

State officials were spied upon, denounced, reprimanded, and disgraced because they endeavored to reconcile the accomplishment of their duties to the State with the open practice of their religious obligations.
— from The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-Christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham

He completed his medical studies under Dr. Redman, and entered the army as surgeon and lieutenant during the French and Indian war He went to Europe, to prosecute his studies, in 1760, where he attended the lectures of the celebrated Hunter.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

He stands four square upon divine right and passive obedience.
— from Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski

They sat upon deck, read a little, looked at the blue sky and green banks, and talked when they felt like it.
— from The Home at Greylock by E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss