Chorus of Nephews and Nieces (to Stout Party on her way to the Meet of the Coaching Club).
— from Horse Laughs by Charles Hunt Marshall

The sound continued to come on, nearer and nearer, then suddenly ceased, now surely no more than two hundred yards away.
— from Highland Ballad by Christopher Leadem

The opposition of the country to the ecclesiastico-temporal government became most conspicuous in the year 1257, when Henry, happy beyond measure in his son's being raised to royal rank by the Apostolic See, presented his son to the Great Council of the nation, already wearing the national costume of Naples, and named the sum, to the payment of which he had pledged himself in return.
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke