The name of Nauvoo evidently recalled recollections to John Ferrier.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

These books, which appear to have been printed only for private circulation amongst the members and are now extremely rare, relate that the Order of the Temple had never ceased to exist since the days of Jacques du Molay, who appointed Jacques de Larménie his successor in office, and from that time onwards a line of Grand Masters had succeeded each other without a break up to the end of the eighteenth century, when it ceased for a brief period but was reinstituted under a new Grand Master, Fabré Palaprat, in 1804.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Wash Williams tries to explain his eccentricity but hardly can; Louise Bentley "tried to talk but could say nothing"; Enoch Robinson retreats to a fantasy world, inventing "his own people to whom he could really talk and to whom he explained the things he had been unable to explain to living people."
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

" But, mind you, in these lines the poet does not even remotely refer to the occupants of the carriage.
— from The Dance of Death by William (Author of The dance of death) Herman

There is no easy royal road to a reform of this kind, but if the progress has been slow there has been no step backward.
— from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII, Complete The Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life, and Criticism by John Greenleaf Whittier

A winding strip of road was visible, at no great distance, amid the undulations of the open ground; and along this strip the stalwart figure of Mr. Vanstone was now easily recognizable, returning to the house from his morning walk.
— from No Name by Wilkie Collins

They went, then, the four of them; he, Mrs. Verinder, Emmeline, and Margaret Pratt, her married sister—down the newly-named Exhibition Road, round the corner to one of the largest houses in the Cromwell Road.
— from Spinster of This Parish by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

There was not a sign of disorder, there was nothing even remotely resembling the toughs of the great Eastern cities
— from The Candidate: A Political Romance by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Mr. Webster, as a New England representative, resisted the protective policy at the outset as against her interests, but when she had conformed to the new conditions, he came over to its support simply on the ground of expediency.
— from Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge