Therefore it is essential to begin work of this sort early in the morning, and to have yards so constructed as to cause as little loss of time as possible.
— from A First Year in Canterbury Settlement by Samuel Butler

He is a man whom the people of the city and the country at large look upon as a paragon.
— from The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin A Political Novel of the Twentieth Century by Francis Alexandre Adams

[the wedding canopy], according to custom; and lastly, let the bridegroom receive the kiss of peace from the priest, and pass it on to his bride.’”
— from The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

The letters of the alphabet both upper and lower case , as the capitals and little letters are called, which are used by mechanical draftsmen are also shown in Fig.
— from Inventing for Boys by A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins