The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederic Manning
The darkness was increasing rapidly, as the whole sky had clouded, and threatened thunder. There was still some desultory shelling.

Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War by Joan Beaumont
Clarence Joe Russell, known to his family as Joe, volunteered to serve in the Australian Infantry Force (AIF) on 4 December 1916. This was not an obvious time to enlist.

When Blackbirds Sing by Martin Boyd
All the way home on the ship Dominic thought of Helena. For the first week he had not so much thought of her as felt her, or felt the loss of her.

No Ordinary Convict : A Welshman Called Rebecca By Janine Marshall Wood
It was under clear moonlight, about one in the morning when Jac’s white horse was shot from beneath him.