Wilfred Bohun gave but one glance, and ran down the steps into the yard.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Louis XVI., who wished, as one might say, to enlarge the borders of gentleness and resignation, displayed more than good-will towards the ministers; he showed them deference.
— from Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand

The heading of the fourth chapter must have come straight from his heart: ‘that many times the business of government and rule distracts the mind of the ruler [710] .’
— from The Life and Times of Alfred the Great Being the Ford lectures for 1901 by Charles Plummer

Author: Poems, privately printed, 1880; Songs from Vagabondia; More Songs from Vagabondia; and Last Songs from Vagabondia (in collaboration with Bliss Carman); Seaward: An Elegy (on the death of Thomas William Parsons); The Quest of Merlin: A Masque; The Marriage of Guenevere: A Tragedy; The Birth of Galahad; A Romantic Drama; Taliesin: A Masque; Along the Trail: A Book of Lyrics; Translator the Plays of Maeterlinck (in two series).
— from The Younger American Poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

At the base a narrow band of green and red diamond rice diaper on a white ground.
— from Chats on Oriental China by J. F. Blacker

One little ant had run up on an overhanging blade of grass, and, reaching down, holding on by the wonderful feet spoken of before, and grabbed the poor creature in the middle, raised it right up from the ground, and keeping hold, ran along overhead till the end of the spear of grass was reached.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 08, No. 4, November 1900 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

You know Phil; so that when I tell you Sam Burke, of Greenmount, and Roger Doolan were of the party, I need not say that the English traveller was not left to his own unassisted imagination for his facts.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever