In Thames street, on the Thames side, west from Downegate, is Greenewich lane, of old time so called, and now Frier lane, of such a sign there set up.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The whole plan of campaign unrolled itself before me, and I fairly laughed in glee, looking out of the garret window right down on the little bald spot on the top of Uncle Abimelech's head, as he stood laying down the law to Murray about something.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I know one large scattered village where it appears predominant—as dirty and disorderly-looking a place as can be imagined, the ground round every cottage resembling a gipsy camp, but worse owing to its greater litter of old rags and rubbish strewn about.
— from A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Already my wedding costume was there, staring at me from the corner—shining satin and expensive lace, little sachet bags sewed into the lining, and, on the belt inside, the name in gold letters of one of the most fashionable dressmakers in New York.
— from Bobbie, General Manager: A Novel by Olive Higgins Prouty

But I don't quite follow how it got lifted out of their hands at Rodhaven, and brought before us ."
— from The Devil's Garden by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

And in many cases several muscles look like one single muscle in the increase of fat; and in many cases, in growing lean or old, one single muscle divides into several muscles.
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo

There was a low iron gate leading out of the quadrangle into the grounds.
— from Henry Dunbar: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Disputes between successful business men can be settled usually now in good lawyers' offices on fair terms, saving bitterness, loss of time, and expensive or prolonged trials.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer

[*172] We are happy in being able to make our readers -293- acquainted with them through the graceful translations of the late Mr. Glassford, selecting three sonnets in which she tenderly alludes to the blight of her widowhood, mildly inculcates the cloisters' quiet, and clothes in glowing language orisons of holiest fervour.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630 by James Dennistoun

This was “Harris”—the missions have overdone themselves in giving the Indians clothing, wedding-rings, and English names which they cannot pronounce—or, as he called himself, “Hăllish,” certified captain of the interned gasoline launch of one of the stores, but who was “not working this year.”
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck