Robert left Audley the next morning by an early train, and reached Shoreditch a little after nine o'clock.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Why, the fact is that continentals generally give us but little alarm; the liberty which they enjoy will long prevent their taking precautions against us; it is rather islanders like yourselves, outside our empire, and subjects smarting under the yoke, who would be the most likely to take a rash step and lead themselves and us into obvious danger.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

“What, now, lad?” demanded Hawkeye; “you save a Huron from the death-shriek by that word; have you reason for what you do?” Uncas pointed toward a rocky shore a little in their front, whence another war canoe was darting directly across their course.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

I passed one winter in George Town and remember seeing a long line of wagons cross the river on the ice, attached to troops going South."
— from A Portrait of Old George Town by Grace Dunlop Peter

He pointed eagerly to a rocky spur a little in front of them, somewhat to the right.
— from Kobo: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang

the remains of numerous insects, such as beetles and crickets, have been found; but the Permian developed them, and reptiles, saurians, and lizards have been traced; but as Sir R. Murchison states, throughout the whole extent the animals are of a single type.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

Conant (1951:30, 210), describing the habitat in Ohio, stated that the species does not occur in swamps and areas that are subject to spring floods nor on dry hillsides, but is abundant in some areas where there are rotting stumps and logs remaining from former patches of swamp forest, and usually is found in low, moist situations, in wooded valleys or even at the edges of swamps and bogs.
— from Life History and Ecology of the Five-Lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

Three bloody battles were fought, and in the third Conmor was killed by the hand of Prince Judual, A.D. 555, whereupon Judual ascended the throne, and rewarded Samson as liberally as he could have desired, but the bishop died five years later.
— from A Book of Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

“Wallingford opened his eyes, and as they met those of Miss Bramlett, a convulsive shudder shook his body for a moment, then he closed them, and remained silent a long time.
— from The White Rose of Memphis by William C. (Clark) Falkner

The approaching rabbit stopped and looked around, his two ears raised straight up in the air.
— from Bumper the White Rabbit by George Ethelbert Walsh

One morning came in this cruel mechanic with a cord tied to a round stick as large as a broom handle, placed it into Barclay's mouth then placing the cord back of his neck tied it to the other end of the stick, which was in the poor man's mouth, his hands were bound and he was gagged and left in this suffering condition till dinner time; loosened a little while for dinner and then gagged till supper time, and so on from day to day.
— from Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States by Moses Swan

That Burke who was calling on father is a stupid policeman, whom he met in the hospital, and I was being treated to a regular sermon about life and wickedness and a lot of tiresome rot.
— from Traffic in Souls: A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Eustace Hale Ball