He felt about for the stirrups with his boots and then took up the old reins, still grinning and bowing his adieux with a gallantry that would have done credit to the Colonel.
— from Sunlight Patch by Credo Fitch Harris

But next day there came thousands upon thousands of rats, sent to do judgment on him.
— from The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

This led some people to suppose that the granite had been driven up from below, and in so doing had thrust up the overlying rocks seen on either flank of the chain; in other words, they believed granite to have been the upheaving agent.
— from The Story of the Hills: A Book About Mountains for General Readers. by H. N. (Henry Neville) Hutchinson

l began to understand that one reason so many organic gardeners misunderstood
— from Organic Gardener's Composting by Steve Solomon

At last the holy league was formed, the new and last crusade proclaimed, his uncle and bosom friend appointed to the command of the united troops of Rome, Spain, and Venice.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) by John Lothrop Motley

Tons upon tons of rich stone had been raised to the surface.
— from The Lost Explorers: A Story of the Trackless Desert by Alexander MacDonald