It was not until she had got her first letters that she began to think she could ever like Kingsport or feel at home there.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Lycurgus, the author of the greatness of Lacedaemon, 10. 599 E . Lydia, kingdom of, obtained by Gyges, 2. 359 C : —Lydian harmonies, to be rejected, 3. 398 E foll.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

And as Madame Defarge moved on from group to group, all three went quicker and fiercer among every little knot of women that she had spoken with, and left behind.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

He can never forget the magnificent dash back into the wide, ugly, swollen stream made by Captain Edward L. King of General Lawton’s staff, as he spurred his horse in, followed by several troopers who had responded to his call for mounted volunteers to accompany him in an effort to save the lives of the men who went down.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Everything looked kind of gray.
— from Roy Blakeley's Silver Fox Patrol by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

While dressing, very placidly and deliberately, and while thinking upon all the multitudinous things that seemed to have happened in her world during her long slumber, Leonora dwelt too upon the extraordinary loving kindness of this hireling, who got twenty pounds a year, half-a-day a week, and a day a month.
— from Leonora by Arnold Bennett

Each little knot of people lighted a small smouldering mosquito fire in the midst, so that smoke was rising on all sides.
— from Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians by Edward Francis Wilson

Nothing happens but in virtue of natural laws, laws just as natural and inherent in the universal scheme of things as gravitation or the precession of the equinoxes, only outside our extremely limited knowledge of the universe.
— from Austin and His Friends by Frederic Henry Balfour

Before leaving Bonn the company assembled and elected Lux king of the expedition, who in distributing the high offices of his court conferred upon Bernhard Romberg and Ludwig van Beethoven the dignity of, and placed them in his service as, kitchen-boys—scullions.
— from The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I by Alexander Wheelock Thayer

Though the sacred festival had given excuse for prolonging the evening meal, and the wine-cup had been replenished beyond the abstemious wont, still each little knot of revellers passed, and dispersed in a sober and decorous quiet which perhaps no other eminent city in Greece could have exhibited; young and old equally grave and noiseless.
— from Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters An Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The electric light kills our sight; the telephone destroys our temper; the District Messenger call ruins our dinner; and, conjointly, they waste our time and deplete our purses.
— from The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss

At one place a glee-woman was dancing round an unmuzzled bear, which endeavoured to seize her, while the keeper scourged the animal to excite its fury; at another, two men, in warlike attire, armed with brand and buckler, were playing at the sword-dance of the Anglo-Saxons to the sound of music, while a woman danced round them as they combated; at a third, wrestlers were exercising their skill in various attitudes; in one of which, said to have been derived from the ancient Greeks, two men, each mounted on the back of a comrade, encountered like knights on horseback, and endeavoured to secure victory by pulling his antagonist to the ground.
— from Cressy and Poictiers: The Story of the Black Prince's Page by John G. (John George) Edgar

The Chapel is always open, you know, and in the early morning and late evening little knots of three and four, or eight and ten, are kneeling about, quietly saying their prayers.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge