Jim Curwood had begun to take a keen and glowing interest in the young women of the campus.
— from James Oliver Curwood, Disciple of the Wilds by Hobart Donald Swiggett

Such was the activity known as “gazara” in our establishment!
— from Where Your Treasure Is: Being the Personal Narrative of Ross Sidney, Diver by Holman Day

He had openly begun to muster his friends, retainers and servants, to take vengeance on sir Thomas Knevet, by whom he had been wounded in a duel; and the queen, who interfered to prevent the execution of this savage design, was obliged for some time to appoint Knevet a guard in order to secure his life.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

The facetious quadruped is represented with its head tied to a knocker, and grinning in the face of the alarmed house-owner, who appears at the [Pg 302] door dressed in his night costume, with a rush-light in his hand and a blunderbuss under his arm.
— from Military Service and Adventures in the Far East: Vol. 1 (of 2) Including Sketches of the Campaigns Against the Afghans in 1839, and the Sikhs in 1845-6. by Daniel Henry MacKinnon

[44] Table of the Classification of the Animal Kingdom [A] Grade I. — Unicellular Animals.
— from Stories of the Universe: Animal Life by B. Lindsay

She was clever, if she chose to work, though apt to argue with her teachers; and keen at games, if she could win, but showed an unsporting tendency to lose her temper if the odds were against her.
— from A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Angela Brazil

So the old man took them a knife, and gave it to them, saying, ‘Keep this carefully, and as long as the blade is bright all is well; but if the blade is bloody, then know that evil has befallen him.’
— from The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Now that the source which had fed this gratitude was dried up, all that was tender and kind and good in him seemed to be running dry or turning to bitterness.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

His 222 own proceedings are kept modestly in the background; but a careful reader will soon discover that, in addition to his appointed task as collector of folk-lore, he did his full share of topographical investigation, in which he evidently took a keen and growing interest, all the more remarkable as he could have had but little previous preparation for it.
— from Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere by John Willis Clark

Such was Grace O'Malley—stern and proud in temper, fearless and manly in her habits, but now and then giving way to a kind and generous impulse.
— from Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children by Grace Greenwood