I once learned a lesson and received a nervous shock which easily returns, as I was about to address a meeting, and under a sudden impression asked the most knowing inhabitant of the village, 'Did any of the speakers who have addressed you ever tell such a story?'
— from Papers from Overlook-House by Frederic W. Beasley

And now she was enormously rich, and alone.
— from Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

A local effort against Nebi Samwil was easily repulsed, but the 60th Division reported that the enemy had in the past few days continued his shelling of the Mosque, and had added to his destruction of that sacred place by demolishing the minaret by gunfire.
— from How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine by W. T. (William Thomas) Massey