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received everywhere by enormous crowds and
He spoke at Hartford, at Springfield, Northampton, Worcester, Lynn, Salem, Lowell, Fall River, Plymouth, Lexington and Concord, received everywhere by enormous crowds, and rousing everywhere an unexampled enthusiasm.
— from Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell

Ralph Eure burnt Eikford church and
September 6th, Sir Ralph Eure burnt Eikford church and town, the barnekyn of Ormiston, and won by assault the Moss Tower, burnt it, and slew thirty-four people within it; he likewise burnt several other places in that neighbourhood, and carried off more than five hundred nolt and six hundred sheep, with a hundred horseload of spoils got in the tower.
— from Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland

rich extraordinarily beautiful extraordinarily charming and
il * $1.50 (1½c) Little 17-23982 “Beatrix Vanderdyke was extraordinary rich, extraordinarily beautiful, extraordinarily charming, and extraordinarily foolish.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

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