Gradually, Lady Eleanore Rochcliffe's circle grew smaller, till only four gentlemen remained in it.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

As if a Toronto boy like Ken Ford would ever really think of a country girl like Ethel!" Rilla flushed.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

[123] Cf. C. G. Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains in Pop.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

*Charles, Viscount Howard (raised to this rank by Cromwell, July 20, 1657). Philip, Lord Wharton. *George, Lord Eure. *Roger, Lord Broghill ( Peer's son ).
— from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson

(Investor's Business Daily 19 Oct 98) "GRASSROOTS" LOBBY EFFORT ROOTED AT AT&T The Prince George's Coalition Against Hidden Taxes, supposedly a grassroots lobbying effort organized in Maryland, has been revealed to be a massive effort by AT&T to defeat proposed legislation that would charge a fee of 3% of gross revenues generated by telecom companies seeking to use public rights of way to lay cable, string wire, or plant cellular towers to provide new services.
— from Project Gutenberg Newsletters 1999 Thirteen Letters: December 1998 to December 1999 by Michael Hart

nonne vides, propriis ut spumet gemma lacunis et refluos ducant pocula viva sinus udaque pingatur radiis obstantibus Iris, secretas hiemes sollicitante die?
— from Claudian, volume 2 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

"Bonnivard, en sortant de sa captivité, eut le plaisir de trouver Genève libre et réformée: la République s'empressa de lui témoigner sa reconnaissance, et de le dédommager des maux qu'il avoit soufferts; elle le reçut Bourgeois de la ville au mois de Juin, 1536; elle lui donna la maison habitée autrefois par le Vicaire-Général, et elle lui
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

"All the gentlemen," Lord Elcho relates, "who crossed to Nantes, proceeded to Paris after their disembarkation;" [270] but he enters into no further particulars of their destination.
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

To compare very small things with great, Lingula, etc., remaining nearly unaltered from the Silurian epoch to the present day, is like the dovecote pigeons still being identical with wild Rock-pigeons, whereas its "fancy" offspring have been immensely modified, and are still being modified, by means of artificial selection.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

The good lady evidently regarded him as a wicked, fox-like creature, whose society was fraught with danger to her tender bantling.
— from Flaming June by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

They stood in groups, like enormous rocks, no longer black, but white with frost.
— from Indian Child Life by Charles Alexander Eastman

In April, 1804, General Lake entered Rajputana, and drove Jaswant Rao Holkar southward into Indore territory.
— from India Under British Rule from the Foundation of the East India Company by James Talboys Wheeler