Yet he had picked up gossip enough to have it occur to him that the loud-voiced man upon the bench might be the notorious Justice Callahan, about whom the people of Packingtown spoke with bated breath.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

When the men plucked up gallantry enough to offer their services, she smiled and thanked them in broken English, but said that her small forces would serve.
— from Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches by Arthur Quiller-Couch

[Pg 279] (the Japanese Quince) that flowers early in the year is pretty under glass, especially the distinct P. Maulei , which is of dense and compact growth, and bears salmon-red flowers in profusion.
— from Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by E. T. (Ernest Thomas) Cook

We stood, however, talking for a few minutes, and while doing so Benton passed us, going east toward Broadway.
— from A Master Hand: The Story of a Crime by Richard Dallas

It was easy to spend a long time there, and they did; visiting one section after another, admiring all that was worthy of admiration in the architecture and exhibits—the German pavilion with its towers, domes, and arches, its Ionic pillars upholding golden eagles, the fountains at the base, the Germania group in hammered copper surmounting the highest pedestal, and, most beautiful and impressive of all, the great wrought-iron gates that form its main entrance, and were considered the finest and most remarkable specimens of that kind of work ever yet seen in our country.
— from Elsie at the World's Fair by Martha Finley

[543] And all whom he had before prepared unto glory, even those whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles, as a people in covenant acting faith on Christ will lay hold on the covenant promise.
— from The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham