The choir boys gathered like twittering birds at the base of the tower: energetic visitors came half shyly through the portal that was to give such a sense of time's rejuvenation as never before had they deemed possible: dons came hurrying like great black birds in the gathering light: and at last the tired revelers, Michael and Wedderburn, Maurice Avery and Lonsdale and Grainger and Cuffe and Castleton and a score besides equipped in cap and gown went scrambling and laughing up the winding stairs to the top.
— from Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

Kelly, Edward D Porter, Dallas City Hall.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

Evan, a little disconcerted at having missed his mark, when he meant to have displayed peculiar dexterity, covered his confusion by whistling part of a pibroch as he reloaded his piece, and proceeded in silence up the pass.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

Id peen roppery for der pall der catch him dot vay.”
— from Frank Merriwell's Endurance; or, A Square Shooter by Burt L. Standish

If, however, we go much farther back than the memories of a living man it seems highly probable that the sexual customs of the German people of the present day are not substantially different—though it may well be that at different periods different circumstances have accentuated them—from what they were in the dawn of Teutonic history.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

When he referred to the extraordinary traps which Du Paty de Clam had set in the hope of extracting from his prisoner something which might be interpreted as a confession, everybody seemed suddenly won over to the Dreyfusite cause, and acclamations again followed a passage in which counsel reminded those in high places, who assumed such a hypocritical " non possumus " attitude towards the case, that the most pilloried and execrated name in all history was that of Pontius Pilate.
— from Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

Même je le vois encore, accompagné d’une façon si burlesque par la société dite philharmonique de cette honnête ville, à ce point, que Meyerbeer qui était là, ne pouvant supporter plus longtemps cet accompagnement barbare, est
— from Ole Bull: A Memoir by Sara Chapman Thorp Bull

[Pg 99] At Pozzuoli we dined in the Albergo del Ponte di Caligola (Heaven save the mark!), and drank Falernian wine of modern and indifferent vintage.
— from New Italian sketches by John Addington Symonds

del Pellegrinaggio di Childe Harold ...
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron