“ ‘In vain I managed to observe it through a small hole made in the wall; thrown upon a little straw in one of the darkest corners, it remained day after day disordered and motionless.
— from Romantic legends of Spain by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

He was the artist she had met in the wood at Coverdale the day Sieur Hugh had beaten her—her “Saint Michel” !
— from The Lamp of Fate by Margaret Pedler

There are some happy moments in this lone And desolate world of ours, that well repay The toil of struggling through it, and atone
— from Fanny, with Other Poems by Fitz-Greene Halleck

I shall fight like Israel in the silence of the night; and the Lord shall wound me in the thigh, and shall humble me in the conflict in order that, being vanquished, I may become the victor.
— from Pepita Ximenez by Juan Valera

So, having found an example of "Ah Him! " which, according to one half of our grammarians, is bad English, he conceives the independent case of he to be him ; but in the plural, and in both numbers of the words thou and she , he makes it the nominative, or the same in form as the nominative.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

[256] In the first place it shows that a species hybrid may inherit the distinguishing marks of both parents.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

There are several hundred mines in the region and the entire population of the town of Maaden derives its livelihood from mining and cutting the stones.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 10 No. 4 [November 1901] by Various

Also it was true, as gossip said, that the artist she had met in the train had arrived, and hastened to renew the acquaintance.
— from The Guests Of Hercules by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Probably she would have done so altogether if it had not been for M. Deshoulières and Sister Gabrielle, who watched her wisely and tenderly, and sent her more into the cornfields with Nannon.
— from Unawares: A Story of an Old French Town by Frances Mary Peard