One break and one only he observed in the double row of lights encircling the courtyard.
— from The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katharine Green

Without educational advantages, save in the most rudimentary way, without any fair prospect of ever becoming independent or of materially improving their status, these mill workers kept up the daily round of labor, earning the millions which were [Pg 44] laying the foundations of a new and greater East, eventually a new United States, and voting, in so far as they exercised the right of suffrage at all, for the cause of their masters, against the “slave-drivers” of the South and for protection to manufactures as a means of defending themselves against their poorer brethren of Europe.
— from Expansion and Conflict by William Edward Dodd

This devotion is general in religious 1524.png [Pg 720] communities, but it may also be easily followed by persons in the world without interfering with the daily routine of life enough to attract the attention of any one.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Returning into the main road, you perceive on the left a double row of lofty elms, that extend about half a mile; and at the termination of the vista, Aston hall and the lofty spire of the church produce a grand effect.
— from A Description of Modern Birmingham Whereunto Are Annexed Observations Made during an Excursion Round the Town, in the Summer of 1818, Including Warwick and Leamington by Charles Pye

Page 42 CHAPTER VI A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE Remaining only long enough to see that the operator got off the first part of his story, and finding, on inquiry, that the telegrapher had no difficulty in reading his writing, Larry started back to the scene of the wreck.
— from Larry Dexter's Great Search; Or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire by Howard Roger Garis

Not so, there is a strange mysterious masonry in human souls, and while "Few are the hearts, whence one same touch, Bids the sweet fountain flow," an indescribable consciousness of mutual interest came with this meeting; and while I little dreamed that this stranger would in after time stand by my side in the nearest and dearest relation of life, even that of a husband; his face, his form, his voice, his soul were all to me an open volume, which by that inner sight, I read in every minute detail, and then and there were all these photographed upon my heart.
— from The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl by Mary L. Day