To be either a soldier, a sailor, an architect, or an engineer, would, doubtless, have its fascinations as well; but to make a real printed book, with your name in gilt letters outside, was real romance.
— from Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne

[ 9 ] The Rev. Gregory Lynch of Westland Row, openly charges the agitating bishops with having forged the signature of many priests to the protest which they have published against the Charitable Bequests Bill.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various

A crowd of admiring little boys and girls looked on with relish.
— from The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler

This is assuredly the opportunity for which a people and a government like ours were raised up, the opportunity not only to speak but actually to embody and exemplify the counsels of peace and amity and the lasting concord which is based on justice and fair and generous dealing.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

They build fires in the open out in the tilt yard or garden and all day perspiring varlets stand feeding on great logs over which roast long spits of chickens and geese, or boil caldrons of meat.
— from Life on a Mediaeval Barony A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century by William Stearns Davis