A distant bell thinly struck eleven jarring notes as they moved into the flickering gloom of empty streets with the orange blur of lamps floating unsteadily on dim boughs above, and the more brilliant, crackling radiance of the arc lights at the crossings.
— from The Lay Anthony: A Romance by Joseph Hergesheimer

Their experience was that these things always came right of themselves at last, and they usually let them.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells

There burst on his ear a confused round of talking and laughing, and out of one of the rocky gullies leading towards the river came the men they had been flying from, in number about fourteen.
— from Australian Writers by Desmond Byrne

The completed roll of the Academic, Law, and Theological Departments would show nearly, if not quite 200 names.
— from The American Missionary, Volume 34, No. 12, December 1880 by Various

“We called round on them after lunch, and at once I was appealed to for my decision.
— from They and I by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

It was the last of September when she left Paris for London, where she remained several days to make preparations for her voyage, before proceeding to Glasgow to take the steamer, she having decided to sail from there, because she could obtain a comfortable passage at cheaper rates on the Anchor Line, and it was now becoming necessary for her to husband her funds a little.
— from His Heart's Queen by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.