The Echtra Nerai or the ‘Adventures of Nera’ (see this study, p. 287 ), contains a description like the one above, of how a mortal named Nera went into the Sidhe -palace at Cruachan; and it is said that he went not only into the cave ( uamh ) but into the síd of the cave.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

She was so completely unnerved by it, that some little time elapsed before she could summon composure enough to follow the proprietor of the Asylum to that part of the house in which the inmates were confined.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

He ascended two steps more, looking curiously at the loom "I came up because I thought something extraordinary had happened up here and I ought to find out about it."
— from Under the Country Sky by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

[6] has called attention to some curious utterances buried in the Species Plantarum , in which Linnaeus refers to intermediate and transitional species, using language that even suggests evolutionary proclivities of a modern kind, and it is not easy to interpret them otherwise.
— from Problems of Genetics by William Bateson

For, as we have said before, the tree being a large one, and conveniently near the cabin, the savages would creep up behind it to shoot from, which would be sure to bring a dangerous response; and Charlie was obliged to know 246 more than once that the tree was perforated by balls from his father’s rifle.
— from The Cabin on the Prairie by C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson

“The storm came up before its time, She wandered up and down; And many a hill did Lucy climb, But never reached the town.”
— from Between the Larch-woods and the Weir by Flora Klickmann

The poor wretch showed no fight, but slunk away as soon as its tormentors would let it go,—a pitiful craven, utterly beaten in the struggle for life.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers

If, hereafter, Attorney-General Bates's decision, that a free negro is a citizen, be sustained by the Supreme Court, then, should the question come up before it, the State laws above referred to will be declared unconstitutional.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The new head classic was Riddell, a comparatively unknown boy in the school, who had come there a couple of years ago from a private school, and about whom the most that was known was that he was physically weak and timid, rarely taking part in any athletic exercises, having very few chums, interfering very little with anybody else, and reputed “pi.”—as
— from The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed

Just as I was about to pursue my journey two boys came up, bound in the same direction as myself.
— from Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Borrow

With that he jumped on me an' we had a fine fight, till the bartenders came round an' chucked us both into the street.
— from The Mission of Poubalov by Frederick R. (Frederick Russell) Burton

Just as I was about to pursue my journey, two boys came up, bound in the same direction as myself.
— from Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery by George Borrow