The bar-keeper drew beer from two pumps immediately in front of him, and rinsed glasses in some sort of a sink under the edge of the bar.
— from The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

You never heard any reason given, I suppose, why Blair holds a better position than Manson?”
— from The Speculations of John Steele by Robert Barr

If you live where you can easily get stone, have a rock garden in some form, even if it is only an edging of stones to your herbaceous border, and grow some of the plants we have told you of amongst them.
— from The Children's Book of Gardening by Mrs. Paynter

Ochino, learning that his death was determined on at Rome, hastily fled to Ferrara, whence, being assisted by the good Duchess Renée, he escaped the hands of the armed men despatched to apprehend him, and reached Geneva in safety.
— from The Duchess of Trajetto by Anne Manning

Take the case of the Schizoea pusilla of the New Jersey pine barrens, to which we have already referred, growing in similar barrens in New Zealand, and how are we to account for their antipodal appearance upon the globe?
— from Life: Its True Genesis by Horatius Flaccus