There were thousands of people still in the Park, and Royal carriages and escorts coming and going; music, flags, and a general impression of movement and colour everywhere.
— from Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

There Miss Traynor, Marion Durrant's aunt, had a neat little house, possessing all reasonable comforts, and even modest luxuries.
— from The Duke's Sweetheart: A Romance by Richard Dowling

“See this, John!” and Mary pointed to a group of trees they were passing, “a ring cut around every one of them!”
— from The Story of a Doctor's Telephone—Told by His Wife by Ellen M. Firebaugh

While a motor of this kind is, in conjunction with such a switch, the most efficient, the motor with permanent field magnets is preferable as regards cost and ease of fixing.
— from Things To Make by Archibald Williams

Again they gazed with renewed pleasure at the wild and the sublime outline of the surrounding mountains with their varied combinations, while the richness and beauty of colouring thrown over and around the whole, by the purple and rose colours and ethereal blue of the sky, imparted to the scene a beauty which no fancy sketch of fairyland could surpass.
— from Exiled for the Faith: A Tale of the Huguenot Persecution by William Henry Giles Kingston