Furtive boos and a few hoarse cheers came from somewhere in the long line of convicts, and Luke saw several men flattened to the ground by swift darting neutro-beams.
— from Vulcan's Workshop by Harl Vincent

In effect, hardly had the King seen them occupied in preparing the defence of the above named places, when, leaving the Queen and the ladies in the agreeable town of Metz, he rapidly traversed sixty leagues of country, and laid siege to the town of Ghent, which was scarcely expecting him.
— from Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Complete by Madame de Montespan

"Jessie," she said, suddenly laying her hand on her companion's wrist, as they crossed the common above the slate-quarry, seaward of Trevalga village, with its little old church and low square tower.
— from Mount Royal: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Let the king give us liberty of conscience, and lame, starved, and bleeding at every pore, we will still fight for him against England and Germany.
— from The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel. Vol. I. by Ludwig Tieck

I laughed out clear and loud, stepped up to the convivialist, took him by the shoulders and faced him about.
— from St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson