Captain Smith spent about a month with the Indians and became thoroughly acquainted with them in their own homes, observed their habits of domestic life, their rites and ceremonies, and learned something of their strange language.
— from The Birth of the Nation, Jamestown, 1607 by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor

At the same instant she found herself wide awake, fully alert and conscious of the problems she must face that day—the passing of the rapids and covering a long span of that trail which still lay between them and their goal.
— from The Purple Flame A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Then you come finally to rest, and climb a little stiffly from your seats: the day’s air-tour is done.
— from The Aeroplane by Claude Grahame-White

There were torches, but they flared and smoked in the rain and cast a light so weak and fitful that Harry could not see the farther shore.
— from The Shades of the Wilderness: A Story of Lee's Great Stand by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler