For the first time in my life, at least so it seems to me now in this retrospect, I looked at my existence as a whole.
— from Tono-Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The old church contained frescoes by Giotto, some fragments of which, removed the year before the fire, are now in the Royal Institution, Liverpool.
— from The South of France—East Half by C. B. Black

Another side is seen in the Autobiography — in the stories of Maurice Baring plunging into the sea in evening dress on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday, and of the smashing by Gilbert of a wine-glass that became in retrospect a priceless goblet (which had "stood by Charlemagne's great chair and served St. Peter at High Mass") and now inspired the refrain: I like the sound of breaking glass.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

"I'm sorry I'm not in the raid.... I looked across and then my shoulder burned...."
— from The Brown Brethren by Patrick MacGill

"Nick in the regiment is like a splinter in the finger.
— from Army Boys in the French Trenches; Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with the Enemy by Homer Randall

but the dicipline instituted by S. Columba=>but the discipline instituted by S. Columba sort of pseudo Classic style=>sort of pseudo -Classic style now in the Renaissancé =>now in the Renaissance in little rupute as time went on=>in little repute as time went on plorer tres amèrement et à dire=>plorer très amèrement et à dire père et mére , parents et amis=>père et mère, parents et amis S'il pleut le jour de Saint- Medard ,=>S'il pleut le jour de Saint-Médard, façade was only commenced towards the end of the episcopate=> façade was only commenced towards the end of the episcopate One enterrait 100,000 personnes.=>On enterrait 100,000 personnes.
— from The Churches of Paris, from Clovis to Charles X by Sophia Beale