It poured with rain during those three days but he managed to light little fires in one of the caves with seal blubber and routing out the things in her cave he found everything she had so carefully salved, the cups and plates, the tin of coffee, half empty now—everything, even to the tobacco the men had taken from the cache, he found Bompard’s tinder-box and the Swedish match box belonging to La Touche.
— from The Beach of Dreams: A Romance by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

Woodward halted when within several paces of the two, and looked from one to the other curiously, his eyes narrowed with speculation.
— from 'Drag' Harlan by Charles Alden Seltzer

So when the young bloods of the tribe, thirsting for martial distinction, had forced the hands of their elders and rulers, by provoking a series of frictions with their Fingo neighbours then under British protection, the old chief had exercised no very strenuous opposition to their indulging themselves to the top of their bent.
— from 'Tween Snow and Fire: A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Bertram Mitford

The other canvassers had evidently not yet returned.
— from The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed

The old Chouan had evidently no more ideas than a child.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

It deals, we find, with six counties, arranged in this order: Cambridgeshire, Herts, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Hunts.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

Captain Finn, who had been watching us from a distance, waiting till our conversation had ended, now walked up to me.
— from An Ocean Tragedy by William Clark Russell

[31] One of the best informed and most truthful of contemporary historians expresses not the slightest doubt on this head.
— from Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, active 1840-1883