Close to the harbour ran a range of buildings two hundred and fifty feet long, with three square towers, walls three feet thick, pierced on the sea-side by only narrow loop-holes, and opening into the “bawn” with sixteen square windows, and fifteen arched door-ways of cut stone that gave entrance to eighteen rooms on the ground floor and eighteen above.
— from The Old Irish World by Alice Stopford Green

[Pg 366] came to an end about half-past eleven, and so great was the enthusiasm that all the guests escorted the English Republican back to his hotel, where deputation after deputation waited upon him until half-past two in the morning.
— from Charles Bradlaugh: a Record of His Life and Work, Volume 1 (of 2) With an Account of his Parliamentary Struggle, Politics and Teachings. Seventh Edition by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

And here these two men, so strangely met, with mysterious lives, and both in hiding from the world, settled down to win a fortune from the generous earth, to earn riches that would make them comfortable in their latter years far from the scenes that had known them in other days and to which they dared not return.
— from Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer; Or, The Stranger in Camp by Prentiss Ingraham

“Susie tells me that you have been good enough to express regret with regard to Brenda and Florence Heathcote.”
— from The Girl and Her Fortune by L. T. Meade

I've got a pair for the rest of the session, and at the general election the excellent Robert Boulger will step into my unworthy shoes.'
— from The Explorer by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

The reader, we imagine, will scarcely need to be told who was the owner of those keen gray eyes; those exuberant red whiskers; that airy azure frock.
— from Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

One or two were good enough to express regret that he had not been there to see.
— from In the Midst of Alarms by Robert Barr

It is the confident opinion of Mr. Foulis that the system in question can be applied with advantage to all sizes of gas works, and that it is certainly well adapted for all works where the summer consumption of gas is sufficiently large to give employment to eight retorts.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various

"Oh, my God!" exclaimed the empress, rising to her feet, "she does not believe me."
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach