The last of the fast trains for the day had left and the photograph, even though it were found, could not possibly reach us in time to be of use before the steamer sailed from Brooklyn.
— from The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

Directly after the retreat of the French, several scores of them, men of all ages (from boys of fourteen to old men of over eighty) were peremptorily rounded up in the town barracks, and carried off to Germany as prisoners, leaving behind them practically all their possessions except the clothes in which they stood up.
— from Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France by Gerald Campbell

[Sidenote: "The August Days"] While the Assembly was debating a declaration which might calm revolt, one of the nobles—a relative of Lafayette—arose in his place and stated that if the peasants had attacked the property and privileges of the upper classes, it was because such property and privileges represented unjust inequality, that the fault lay there, and that the remedy was not to repress the peasants but to suppress inequality.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

I says all right, if he'll play something neutral; and Doc says he'll play "Listen to the Mocking Bird," with variations, and play it so swell you'll think you're perched right up in the treetops listening to Nature's own feathered songsters.
— from Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

If the teacher is unskillful or lazy the remedy for poor recitations usually is, "Take the same lesson for to-morrow."
— from The Recitation by George Herbert Betts

He had not much time for thought after that, for the men were halted on the level grass land in front of the terrace garden, and he found himself one of the officers who, after an advance guard had ridden up to the front, and others had been despatched to form piquets surrounding the place, rode up in the train of the general.
— from Crown and Sceptre: A West Country Story by George Manville Fenn

They are collected into triangular groups at the foot of each tentacle; the central and largest point runs up into the tentacle.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 2 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

I can picture the merry parties rolling up in their thousands, booking every available house, flat or room, and even paying very fancy prices for the hire of a booth for a house-party.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08 by Various