The cultivated hills rise to a considerable height on both sides of the river, and are very romantic in character.
— from The Brontë Family, with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë. Vol. 1 of 2 by Francis A. Leyland

The Titans are a confused heap of brawny, sprawling nudities—studied, perhaps, from gondoliers or stevedores, but showing a want of even academical adroitness in their ill-drawn extremities and inadequate foreshortenings.
— from The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the Second by Carlo Gozzi

This charnel-house in which we are encamped, with its streets, which are nothing but malodorous paths winding among corpses, heaps of broken stone and brick, and craters opened by the Boche marmites , still beats with life in its depths.
— from Dixmude: The epic of the French marines (October 17-November 10, 1914) by Charles Le Goffic

He recalled the ugly little circumstances of the early winter—the meeting in St. James's Square—the fee to Mysie; and then—and then, could it be that Alison had begged for secrecy in their engagement, had deprecated the frequency of his visits to the Potterrow, bidden him come on certain evenings and at certain hours only, because she played a double game, and fooled him in it?
— from The Rhymer by Allan McAulay

In 1791 he fell in love with the daughter of a Greek merchant, and, as her father refused to listen to him, he quietly married her and carried her off by ship to Lisbon.
— from Napoleon's Marshals by R. P. Dunn-Pattison

When the door had closed on the last guest and Bess at the piano was playing a snatch of a waltz, Carl pounced upon his aunt and carried her off before she knew it.
— from The Story of the Big Front Door by Mary Finley Leonard

On the square which was selected for the erection of the new cathedral, another church had once been standing under the reign of the first king of the Franks, but it had been destroyed by the Normans.
— from Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland