There was a double row of little lattice windows, piercing a very wall of ivy, like port-holes in a vessel’s side.
— from Fathers of Men by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Jan’s restless craving for change and excitement made him dissatisfied with the daily routine of life, lazy, and often 37 unreasonable.
— from Jan Vedder's Wife by Amelia E. Barr

[iv] c. Canals designed to connect and complete communication between different rivers or lakes, like the Grand Canal of China, the Erie Canal, and the Welland Canal.
— from Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries With a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan, and other canals. by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans

This rather unjustifiable complaint was probably the direct result of Lord Liverpool’s letter of February 20, in which he had set forth at length the enormous burden of the war, and expressed his doubts as to whether the augmentation of the Peninsular army by 14,000 men, for which he had just provided, could be permanently kept up [96] .
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

The death rattle of La Lison had become subdued.
— from The Monomaniac (La bête humaine) by Émile Zola

Overhead, beyond the haze of the great city, a few stars twinkled, and the dim roar of London life beat from all sides upon this quiet corner which still held Lady Mary's old house.
— from Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

( crosses down R. of Lucy ) Lucy.
— from Lady Huntworth's Experiment: An original comedy in three acts by R. C. (Richard Claude) Carton

" Now was KEAY's cue to rise and move its rejection; but KEAY failed to grasp situation; sat smiling with inane adulation at tip of his passionately polished patent-leather shoe, over which lay the fawn-coloured "spat," like dun dawn rising over languid lustrous sea.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 20, 1890 by Various