There they sat, unconsciously clasping hand in hand, and their eyes were wide with fear for him, and yet bright with pride of him as they saw the splendour of his deeds, how his fair streaming hair went ever forward through the Seljuk ranks, and how his track was deep and red for others to follow, till it seemed not possible that one man could slay so many and be unhurt, and a sort of awe came over them, as if he were a being beyond nature.
— from Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

“I wonder what the folks will think, when they see us coming home in this rig?” said Archie.
— from Frank in the Woods by Harry Castlemon

At the same time these regulations were very flattering to us German officers, for they showed us continually how important we were.
— from Gun running for Casement in the Easter rebellion, 1916 by Karl Spindler

“Well, well, Lady Erpingham,” said Lord Paul Plympton, a young nobleman, who had written a dull history, and was therefore considered likely to succeed in parliamentary life—“well, I cannot help thinking you are too severe upon Canning: he is certainly very liberal in his views.”
— from Godolphin, Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The story under consideration, however, is of a different character.
— from Abraham Lincoln: Was He a Christian? by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg

At the State “Union” Convention held in Montgomery, January 19, 1851, among the more prominent delegates were: Thomas B. Cooper, R. M. Patton, W. M. Byrd, B. S. Bibb, J. M. Tarleton, W. B. Moss, James H. Clanton, L. E. Parsons, Robert J. Jamison, Henry W. Hilliard, R. W. Walker, Thomas H. Watts, Nicholas Davis, Jr., and C. M. Wilcox,—all were Whigs, and were Virginians, North Carolinians, and men of northern birth.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming

He even waltzed with a very smart lady (just to show us, condescendingly, how it ought to be done), and waltzed elegantly, too.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster