The glorious sentiment of confronting danger animated and excited her; and her courage rose with each new difficulty of the way, till her very brain seemed to reel with the wild transport of her emotions.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Nothing in her experience had prepared her to meet the emergency she was confronting.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
The people did little else than wonder at this, and curse Capital because it did not locate in a town where nature was lavish in the matter of location, instead of going to a place where it would always find the necessity of contending against odds confronting it.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe