The lightning speed of the telegraph takes its messages from city to city; the panting steamer carries from continent to continent its heavy mail-bags, laden with its weight of loving messages; the "iron horse" drags behind it, its measure of the many missives; while, in the far-distant Western wilds, the lumbering wagon bears its paper freight, with its pen eloquence, to cheer and comfort, or sadden and crush, the waiting emigrants, longing for news of home.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

We do not tremble before the back side of "good things" (we even look for it, we are brave and inquisitive enough for that), of Greek antiquity, of morality, of reason, of good taste, for instance (we reckon up the losses which we incur with all this treasure: we almost reduce ourselves to poverty with such a treasure).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The man behind him, whom he had been talking with earlier, leant forward again, either to give him a few general words of encouragement or some specific piece of advice.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

The principal point of difference in the two accounts is, that Suffren asserts that his flag-ship passed along the whole English line, from the rear to the sixth ship; while Hughes says the French divided into two lines, which, upon coming near, steered, one on the rear, the other on the centre, of his squadron.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

They at once set out in search of the missing youth, no traces of whom were to be found, and whilst they were engaged looking for him, the Argo set sail and left them behind.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

[84] Terraces (walu, "eight;" lapit, "folded;" dukilum, "night," "darkness") of Eight-fold Darkness.
— from Philippine Folk-Tales by Laura Estelle Watson Benedict

So they waited patiently through the hard New England winter and the early spring, but by summer time they were eagerly looking for tidings of her.
— from Once Upon a Time in Connecticut by Caroline Clifford Newton

He had a sort of prejudice against those whose extremities lacked finesse.
— from Honoré de Balzac by Théophile Gautier

Yet amongst it shall I live and thou with me; and ill indeed it were if it wearied thee and thou wert ever longing for some day of victorious strife, and to behold me coming back from battle high-raised on the shields of men and crowned with bay; if thine ears must ever be tickled with the talk of men and their songs concerning my warrior deeds.
— from The Roots of the Mountains Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale, Their Friends, Their Neighbours, Their Foemen, and Their Fellows in Arms by William Morris

or to what end Launcht from the hauen, lye they in the Rhode?
— from The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe

They were evidently looking for Audrey.
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

For again the words expressed lost faith in His power, or in His love to "this man."
— from Parish Papers by Norman Macleod

There was enough light from the street-lamp to make the young girl's face and figure pretty plainly visible, and the moment he saw her the occupant said: "I thought so—mischief!
— from Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Henry Morford

And these were the people to whom England looked for a eugenically begotten race!
— from Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage by Oliver Onions