But a square or two below is the Evening Post Building, where the venerable poet Bryant labored at his editorial duties for so many years.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

Mr Monteath took down Charles’s address, and said he hoped to call on him in London before long; and he earnestly desired that any of the family would apply to him in any case where his advice or assistance could be of service.
— from Principle and Practice: The Orphan Family by Harriet Martineau

But you ought to be like Aunt Harriet, Emily; don’t be like me—tell him so.”
— from The House of Fulfilment by George Madden Martin

The light of the locomotive, attached to the base of the chimney, alone burnt brightly like a huge eye dilating its sheet of fire far into the obscurity.
— from The Monomaniac (La bête humaine) by Émile Zola

All that was to constitute him a man,—all those habits by which alone his existence was capable of being preserved,—and without which he must have perished immediately after his creation, in which case you and I should have been spared the necessity of all this discussion on the subject, would have to be learned; and his existence during that time—and a long time it must have been, having no teachers and aids, as we have—must have been preserved by a—miracle.
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers

Barbara laughed at his evident displeasure.
— from The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright

This was rendered in some degree necessary, by the condition of his bad leg, and his extraordinary devotion to convivial indulgence—a propensity to which he gave full stretch during the social license of the grand jury dinners.
— from The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

Brought up as he had been, by a narrow jealous mother, kept close at his books, living at home, even during his college days, he had never before come under the direct influence of the women who are becoming an educative, progressive power in the world of today; and he began to wonder for the first time in his life, if a woman might not be a strong force in public reforms and still retain her refinement of spirit and her home-loving, home-keeping qualities.
— from A Woman for Mayor: A Novel of To-day by Helen M. (Helen Maria) Winslow