It sprang towards young Boris, who stood up to it and smote bravely at it with his knife, inflicting more than one gash upon nose and head and shoulder.
— from Boris the Bear-Hunter by Frederick Whishaw

When Madame De Ber found that Pierre was growing moody and dispirited and talked of going up north again, her mother's heart relented.
— from A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda M. Douglas

The English soldiers poured hot shot and musketry into the columns of the advancing army; but on they marched to victory with an impurturbable air, worthy of " the old guard " under Ney at Waterloo.
— from History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams