Towards the end of November Reggie wired for Ross and Ross left everything and reached Paris next day.
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 by Frank Harris

n s e n n n h a g a c t l c l e a r Poetical Rebus .
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 06, April 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Various

And because the common and more ordinary description of sin, is the transgression against the second table, he presently replieth again, I am not as this Publican is; and so shrowdeth himself under his own lame endeavours, and ragged, partial patches of moral or civil righteousness.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

"The real criminals in this case, your honor, are the last two witnesses—adults of responsible years, and one of them, at least, enjoying a reputable position.
— from The Incendiary: A Story of Mystery by William Augustine Leahy

There was a great contrast between the simplicity of ordinary domestic life, especially as regards provisions for the table, and the splendor displayed on public occasions, or when guests were to be hospitably entertained.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

Cities are to be rebuilt, the ground that had lain fallow and tangled with briers and thorns is to be tilled, and to bloom like Eden, a restored paradise.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

Stranleigh, kneeling, rested his rifle on the top of the wall, and as Jim’s left ear, a rather prominent feature, became fully visible, the young man fired.
— from Lord Stranleigh Abroad by Robert Barr

The army still had some hope that the general would send for them, and sent two horsemen, lightly equipped and riding post, to repeat their petition.
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship