On all sides are irregular hillocks, groups of trees growing upon little elevations, solid stone walls surrounding scattered farmhouses and cattle-yards, every one of which could be made a strong defensive post.
— from Sant' Ilario by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Mrs. Ross never thought of going until last evening, she says.
— from Macleod of Dare by William Black

Tom Robinson, a tall, powerful boy of sixteen, got up looking extremely scared, and everybody shouted and applauded, whereupon he looked scareder still.
— from Boy Scouts at Crater Lake A Story of Crater Lake National Park and the High Cascades by Walter Prichard Eaton

We wished to go upon Loch Etive; so, having desired the landlady to prepare a fowl for supper, and engaged beds, which she promised us willingly—a proof that we were not in the great road—we determined to find our way to the lake and endeavour to procure a boat.
— from Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Dorothy Wordsworth

neither to separate nor disunite while God grants us life, even should we have the misfortune to be reduced to three or four....
— from The Vaudois of Piedmont: A Visit to Their Valleys by J. N. (John Napper) Worsfold

Gazetteer , " Ulleswater , lake, Eng. situated partly in Westmoreland," &c.— Worcester's Gaz.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

For years it was the vicious custom of corporations to group under “legal expenses” sums paid out to influence the legislature or Congress.
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, July, 1913 Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various