A little spluttering was heard and a tiny blue flame sprang up, making a choking smoke.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

We do not know whether the gemmules are merely collected by some unknown means at certain seasons within the reproductive organs, or whether after being thus collected they rapidly multiply there, as the flow of blood to these organs at each breeding season seems to render probable.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

Mr. Cook shook his head, and was, apparently, [222] about to hand the sheet back to its owner when he stopped, straightened up, made another close survey of it and then said: “Sink, let me have your mysterious paper to-night.
— from The Aeroplane Express; or, The Boy Aeronaut's Grit by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler

Forthwith he stands up, makes a congratulatory speech to the new mayor, and then "ridd on horsebacke with the rest of them," accompanied by representatives of the five citizens who were knighted along with him for their services against the rebels in Smithfield.
— from Bygone London by Frederick Ross

So I wrote to my brother, Felix Cadwalader, or, rather, Felix Adams, as he preferred to be called in later years for family reasons entirely disconnected with the matter of his sudden demise, and, telling him I had become interested in a young girl of good family and some wealth, asked him to settle upon me a certain sum which would enable me to marry her with some feeling of self-respect.
— from The Circular Study by Anna Katharine Green

The latter, taking their stand upon morality and common sense, aver that all affairs between man and his maker ought to be referred to the arbitrement of Heaven.
— from Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist. by Thomas Inman

Who, boy, do you think that I might be?' "'Geronimo turned pale; only one head could be lifted with so haughty a majesty, and suddenly remembering the face which he had seen upon many a coin, sure that he was right, he bent the knee with modest grace, saying, 'Our sovereign lord, his Majesty King Philip'' "'I am he,' was the reply.
— from Barbara Blomberg — Volume 10 by Georg Ebers

Then to hear Wagner's Kaiser March by a well-trained orchestra come soaring up, made a combination such as one gets perhaps not more than once in a life-time.
— from Music-Study in Germany, from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Amy Fay