Even the big robot with its two waving eyestalks retreated respectfully as he approached.
— from Second Variety by Philip K. Dick

'Who in the world ever recommended you?' "'Howard Wakefield did,' I said.
— from The Forest Monster of Oz by Chris Dulabone

When they brought out and led their young away, I wondered if they would ever return to such a spot.
— from Birds in London by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

It was built partly of stone, partly of brick, and partly of timber and plaster, with many gables, and picturesque windows in the wide extending roof.
— from Over the Border: A Romance by Robert Barr

An officer with whom I talked while en route from Berlin to Rotterdam, told me of his own experience.
— from America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell

Hearing that Susan and Mrs. Stanton were in the West en route to California, Leland Stanford, Governor of California and president of the recently completed Central Pacific Railway, sent them passes for their journey.
— from Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Alma Lutz

Besides the many collateral tendencies of such pursuits to favour that growth in grace which I trust will ever remain the principal object of your desires, experience will soon show you that every improvement in the reflective powers, every additional degree of control over the movements of the mind, may find an immediate exercise in the duties of religion.
— from The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends by Anonymous

It was of the mince family, and its top crust was ornamented with sundry nicks and flourishes, made by the point of a knife, and which in their whole effect resembled the remains of a pair of centipedes that had met a violent death.
— from The Sunset Trail by Alfred Henry Lewis

The captain, mates and ship’s crew were, in their way, equally removed from ordinary personages.
— from The Ghost Camp; or, the Avengers by Rolf Boldrewood

As always happens, when two men gifted with such opposite qualities meet, Valentine was not long in gaining over his foster brother a great moral influence, an influence which he employed with infinite tact, without ever rendering his companion aware of it; he appeared to do everything according to his will, whilst imposing his own upon him.
— from The Adventurers by Gustave Aimard