In the abandoned post-office I collected a bushel of Rebel newspapers, dating back for several weeks.
— from The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape by Albert D. (Albert Deane) Richardson

In particular, there came a brace of ruffians named Phillips and Maule, who rode into camp one day, and started a claim upon the other side of the stream.
— from The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle

In particular, there came a brace of ruffians named Phillips and Maule, who rode into camp one day and started [Pg 61] a claim upon the other side of the stream.
— from The Gully of Bluemansdyke, and Other stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

Yes, there was the sign of a recent camp-fire, and a few tin cans and bits of refuse, nothing more.
— from A Voice in the Wilderness by Grace Livingston Hill

We may here take for granted that the moral valuation is a product of many millenniums and has been established, not only in one country and by one religion, nor in one kind of human society, but in perfect independence in many different countries, under the most varied conditions, and finds expression in the symbolism of the most divergent creeds.
— from Nietzsche and Other Exponents of Individualism by Paul Carus

All power accordingly lay with the Royal Council, a body of royal nominees who issued ordinances and levied taxes at their will, so long as they did not entrench on the privileges of the nobility to be free from all direct taxation beyond their feudal dues.
— from Europe in the Sixteenth Century, 1494-1598, Fifth Edition Period 4 (of 8), Periods of European History by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Johnson

There was a standing up of classes, a babble of repetition, now and then a crisis.
— from Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He never paid no attention to his holdings ’cept to collect a bit o’ rent now and then.
— from Hoofbeats on the Turnpike by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt