She emerged seeing nothing, though the enemy wireless was coming loudly, and met the Good Hope , Monmouth , and Otranto at the appointed rendezvous some eighty miles out to sea.
— from The Silent Watchers England's Navy during the Great War: What It Is, and What We Owe to It by Bennet Copplestone

With a low inarticulate cry of terror, he turned and ran, straining every muscle in a futile effort to distance the frightful thing that inexorably kept pace in the shadowy emerald gloom behind him.
— from Astounding Stories, May, 1931 by Various

There are many minor points, but they are really so entirely matters of experience, that it hardly seems worth while to dwell upon them.
— from Stained Glass Work: A text-book for students and workers in glass by Christopher Whall