The uneasy Prussian listened eagerly to these confused sounds.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

[The Unicorn Press: Little Engravings, No. 2.] Cunningham, Allan.
— from William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work by Irene Langridge

Will you call him to us, please, Lord Ernest?" Sitting as I sat, I could not see the person indicated.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

During these eventful years, while the Southern Pacific properties were penetrating eastward through the broad stretches of country to the south of the Union Pacific lines, equally interesting events were occurring in the north.
— from The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States by John Moody

The traveller, as he glides upon this universal prairie land, east, south and west of Chicago, viewing its limitless fertility seen far away in every direction over the monotonous level, as if looking across an ocean, cannot help recalling Wordsworth's pleasant lines: "The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can."
— from America, Volume 2 (of 6) by Joel Cook

For a long distance the upper prairie level exposes good soil, always clay loam, and there can be little doubt that there is much fertile land in this district.
— from Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 by Charles Mair

qui s’y connaît, traite un peu les enfants comme sa protégée Annette; il les exploite; ils travaillent “à l’œil” pour un salaire au moins insignifiant et pour une becquetée de fayots, accompagnés d’hosties de temps en temps.—
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

His men were habited in mantles of the same cloth, which is made from the bark of a tree, [37] and has some resemblance to straw matting; these are nearly square, and have two holes in the upper part large enough to admit the arms; they reach as low as the knees, and are fastened round their bodies with a belt about four inches broad of the same cloth.
— from The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island by John Rodgers Jewitt