Early next morning Evan was at Henty's hotel.
— from A Canadian Bankclerk by Jack Preston
Fireworks were a later attraction, as also was the exhibition named Mount Etna, which called for a special building.
— from Inns and Taverns of Old London by Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley
But when she and Eugénie next met, Eugénie was astonished by her gaiety and good temper—her air of smiling mystery.
— from Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
“But,” resumed Savarin, “though credit exists no more except with my laundress, upon terms of which the usury is necessarily proportioned to the risk, yet, as I had the honour before to observe, there is comfort for the proprietor.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Eyes, nose, mouth, ears, were all choked with hard, sharp, cutting sandy dust.
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
Labor force: total: 591,773 (June 1994) by occupation: manufacturing and mining 40% (1992) Unemployment rate: 38% (1996 est.); note - many employed workers are, in fact, furloughees Budget: revenues : $1.06 billion expenditures: $1 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1996 est.)
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
As we met and exchanged news my eyes wandered away shoreward, and I noticed that Juan and his companions had reached the wharf, and seemed to be busying themselves about one of the upturned boats which I had taken the precaution to stave.
— from A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood
For, on Saturday the 6th of August, their friends at Edinburgh were apprized of it; and early next morning Captain John Dalziel, a half-pay officer, who, in view of this rebellion had thrown up his commission to the Earl of Orkney, was sent out to give the alarm to his brother, the Earl of Carnwath, then at Elliock, where he arrived that night; and, early next morning, expresses were sent to the Earl of Nithsdale, the Viscount of Kenmure, and others of their friends in those parts; the Earl himself went down that same day to meet them, in order to forward their measures; and after some time spent in preparing others, whose inclinations they knew, to embark with them in that bloody project, they repaired to Lothian; and 'twas then given out, that they were gone to a hunting in the north.
— from The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by J. Pringle (James Pringle) Thomson
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