Poussette gave him the day and hour—eleven o'clock in a certain Episcopal church in Montreal on the 24th of December, and then they parted.
— from Ringfield: A Novel by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison

That machine, in the hands of a man who understood it, could supply extraordinary assistance in making mathematical calculations, especially calculations involving many operations and many figures, as in astronomy.
— from Invention: The Master-key to Progress by Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) Fiske

In smaller monastic or collegiate establishments clerics in minor orders were often entrusted with the duty of ringing the bells, as at Tong, in Shropshire (cf.
— from Church Bells by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters

Nor is 'Dead as the carver's figured throng' (for 'Comme les images, par cueur') either clear in meaning, or characteristic of Villon in form.
— from Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons

A Boy's Will A BOY'S WILL By Robert Frost CONTENTS Expanded Contents Into My Own Ghost House
— from A Boy's Will by Robert Frost

Assuredly, Walter, could I have commanded every circumstance in my own way, it could not have happened more favourably.
— from Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock by E. (Eliza) Fenwick