The French and Italian cafés and restaurants were torn down; the whole block was enclosed by a gilded iron railing, and converted into a lovely garden with lawns, flowers and fountains.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Liddy reappeared, and coming in a little way stood hesitating, until at length she said, "Maryann has just heard something very strange, but I know it isn't true.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

In the afternoon I got to Reading, and changed into a local train which journeyed into the deeps of Berkshire.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

A hundred or two fellaheen, of the average as to nakedness and squalor of raiment, are crowded into a long room with a dirt floor, and among them are many with heavy chains on their ankles.
— from My Winter on the Nile Eighteenth Edition by Charles Dudley Warner

In one respect Peter set himself against circumstance, and built Russia a capital in a locality seemingly lacking in all natural adaptation for a city.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 08 (of 15), Russian by Charles Morris

This talk took place late in the afternoon, near the head-quarters of the commanding General; and the men directly scattered to prepare for the work of the evening: some to clean a bayonet, or furbish up a rifle; others to chat and laugh over the chances and to lay plans for the morrow,—the morrow which was for them never to dawn on earth; and yet others to sit down in their tents and write letters to the dear ones at home, making what might, they knew, be a final-farewell,—for the fight impending was to be a fierce one,—or to read a chapter in a little book carried from some quiet fireside, balancing accounts perchance, in anticipation of the call of the Great Captain to come up higher.
— from What Answer? by Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) Dickinson

This account was transmitted to Mr. Fleming by Mr. Macrae, resident at Chittagong, in a letter, dated March 22, 1802, and was accompanied with a drawing, by which it appears that the animal from which my figure was taken was full grown."
— from Delineations of the Ox Tribe: The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. by George Vasey

A fit resemblance of those persons that have come from mystical Babel, to build their Ninevehs, and Rehoboths, and Calnehs, in all lands.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

It at least accorded her a few peaceful years of repose and comfort; it at least permitted her to rest from the weariness of the past on the bosom of Nature, and to forget her disappointments and sorrows.
— from Queen Hortense: A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

The huts of the native regiment are clustered in a little valley close under the south wall of the fort.
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

There was a great crowd of spectators, Froissart tells us, and the bourgeois of Paris, twelve hundred, all on horseback, were ranged in pairs on each side of the road, and clothed in a livery of gowns of baudekyn green and red.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts

And now, I, Astral Herndon, hereby and forever renounce all citizenship in all lands whatsoever, and constitute myself A CITIZEN OF THE OCEAN, and ordain that this title shall be entailed upon my progeny unto all generations, until such time as the shadows which now envelope the darker races in all lands shall have passed away, away and away!" EPILOGUE.
— from Overshadowed: A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs