Mona herself was to go on to the Contrary Head, and the instant the light on the pier had been run down she was to light a lamp as a signal to the police in ambush, and as a warning to the merchantman out at sea.
— from She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir

In vain Germans object that their country has all the 44 years since 1870 kept the peace in Europe.
— from Face to Face with Kaiserism by James W. (James Watson) Gerard

Isn't it good of them?" "To carry him all the way?"
— from A Bride of the Plains by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

“Let us go over to the Crawford house, and tell Miss Lloyd about it.”
— from The Gold Bag by Carolyn Wells

The Franks are always looking to the time of going out to their country houses, and consider their residences in their villages the most agreeable part of their year; and, from what I saw of it, nothing can be more agreeable.
— from Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 1 (of 2) by John L. Stephens

The North-West gentlemen objected that their canoes had already got a cargo in and that they had been requested to convey our stores from Cumberland House only, where they had a canoe waiting for the purpose.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

Some thought they could still see a far-off glimmer, others that they could hear a stifled cry, when the less fortunate or the less imaginative could hear or see nothing.
— from Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel by James Payn

The finest views of the town and the neighbourhood are those obtained from the grounds of the Tregenna Castle Hotel, and from the Battery Rocks.
— from The Cornish Riviera by Sidney Heath