A man, apparently fifty, sat upon a skin, entirely nude save the inevitable blanket, which he occasionally drew up about his waist.
— from Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux by Stephen Return Riggs

In every new situation the individual begins his life all over again.
— from The Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic by Benedetto Croce

Up leapt an eerie note, sustained till it became a terror to the ear, when all at once it broke into a shower of trills like impish laughter.
— from Veiled Women by Marmaduke William Pickthall

With each new spring, the iron bars were loosened.
— from Mystery of the Ambush in India: A Biff Brewster Mystery Adventure by Andy Adams

Philip was the son of a respectable engineer named Schwartzerde, that is, Black-earth, a name which he Grecised at a very early age, as soon as his literary tastes and talents began to display themselves,—assuming, in compliance with the suggestion of his distinguished kinsman Reuchlin or Capnio, and according to the fashion of the age, the classical synonyme of Melancthon.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 6 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin