I then put a little powder in the pan, and made it flash, and showing them the empty pan, they would not be persuaded but I had taken away the powder before the flash, or else, they said, it was impossible that should be all gone upon flashing only; for they said it was a little nut, using the same word to express both nut and seed.
— from The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Complete (Volumes 1 and 2) by Robert Paltock

And in a few moments their ridicule was turned to wonder; for as the cracker went off, a confused medley of rockets, pin-wheels, Roman candles, blue-lights, and other fire-works fell with a loud noise upon the stage.
— from Harper's Young People, July 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

To accomplish this tiny holes are made on the wrong side of each section of the design and cotton is pushed in with a large needle until the section is stuffed full and tight.
— from Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them by Marie D. (Marie Daugherty) Webster

She rejoiced to think that they were warned, so that they could now keep a closer watch and leave nothing undone to save her from further degeneration.
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant

Willoughby rallied him with a laugh not unlike the squeak of his victim.
— from The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith

These, together with Middleburg or Eaoowee, and Pylstart, make a group, containing about three degrees of latitude and two of longitude, which I have named the Friendly Isles or Archipelago, as a firm alliance and friendship seems to subsist among their inhabitants, and their courteous behaviour to strangers entitles them to that appellation; under which we might, perhaps, extend their group much farther, even down to Boscawen and Keppell's Isles discovered by Captain Wallis, and lying nearly under the same meridian, and in the latitude of 15° 53'; for, from the little account I have had of the people of these two isles they seem to have the same sort of friendly disposition we observed in our Archipelago.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr