It is not always easy to find bacon and cheese-rind in foreign lands every day, and it is not pleasant to have to endure hunger, and be perhaps, after all, eaten up alive by the cat.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Knowing that at any given moment he could have solved the whole situation, he had kept Aunt Dahlia and others roosting out on the front lawn en déshabille and, worse still, had stood calmly by and watched his young employer set out on a wholly unnecessary eighteen-mile bicycle ride.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Instead of having four days on the firing line and eight days' rest, we were holding the firing line eight days and resting only four.
— from Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition by John Gallishaw

The British at that time had just taken over another portion of the French line extending down as far as Péronne, in the Somme district and the infantry holding our part of the line at Neuville-St.-Vaast had relieved the French infantry only a few weeks previously.
— from Fighting the Boche Underground by H. D. (Harry Davis) Trounce

All attempts, however, at producing variety of tints, by using the ink thicker or thinner, failed,—the fainter lines either disappearing altogether, or printing as dark as thick ones.
— from A Walk from London to Fulham by Thomas Crofton Croker

The principal should not be broken into for living expenses during a term of at least ninety-nine years.
— from The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler

Here, where all are equal, men are miserable because they are so; because all having equal claims to happiness, find life equally dull and aimless.
— from The Republic of the Future; or, Socialism a Reality by Anna Bowman Dodd

Jesus appears in their midst, and in a calm impressive aria (“Vous qui flétrissez les Erreurs des autres”) rebukes them.
— from The Standard Cantatas: Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers A Handbook by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

Against the crimson plush of an enormous chair-back her small figure looked extravagantly delicate and her little pointed fingers on the arms, startlingly white and fine.
— from Hidden Creek by Katharine Newlin Burt

One-half of an inch above the first line E draw another line (G), and one-half of an inch below the line F draw another line (H).
— from Things Worth Doing and How To Do Them by Lina Beard

granted the church a weekly market and an annual fair lasting eight days, and the symmetrical arrangement of the streets is said to have been caused by the original laying out of the city in spaces "seven perches each in length and three in breadth," as the historian tells us.
— from England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook