A number of ladies in summer dresses and gentlemen in grey frock-coats and tall hats stood on the lawn or sat upon the benches; and every now and then a slender girl in starched muslin would step from the tent, bow in hand, and speed her shaft at one of the targets, while the spectators interrupted their talk to watch the result.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

And now of late I see him less and less, But those first days had golden hours for me, For then I surely thought he would be king.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The hustle and bustle and noise of life intoxicated, stirred, carried me away, and I cried out: "I don't love you any more!
— from Calvary: A Novel by Octave Mirbeau

Those from other parts of India are similar-colored, but longer in hair, while those from the north and China are not only large in size, but have very long soft hair of a delicate orange-brown, with very white flanks, and marked generally, with the blackest of stripes.
— from Principles and Practice of Fur Dressing and Fur Dyeing by William E. Austin

This romantic stream bounds the "Fire Lands" of the Western Reserve, a tract of nearly eight hundred square miles abutting on the lake shore, which Connecticut set apart for colonization by her people, who had been sufferers from destructive fires in the towns of New London, Fairfield and Norwalk on Long Island Sound.
— from America, Volume 2 (of 6) by Joel Cook

"And no one listened, I suppose?" said Shere Ali bitterly.
— from The Broken Road by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

The historical Gorgias, a native of Leontini in Sicily, was the most celebrated of the Grecian rhetors; an elderly man during Plato’s youth.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote

On his return he held a number of livings in succession, and in 1516 was rector of South Ockendon, Essex, and prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

If I had not felt a dread of our perhaps wanting, by and by, the absolute necessaries of life, I should have been grateful to fate for having at length given so favourable a turn to our affairs.
— from Manon Lescaut by abbé Prévost

In Italy a number of learned institutions sent protests, either to the French Embassy at Rome or directly to the German authorities.
— from German Barbarism: A Neutral's Indictment by Léon Maccas