This being arranged, and she having quite recovered from the pallor her fainting fit had caused, we resumed our course homeward, and so hurried on that Harry, who had come to meet us found us getting over the stile of the last field, and was even disappointed that we had got so far, for we were now in sight of the cottage.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The music forum RockNet on CompuServe has a section called Trends.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

I expected to take the offensive on the morning of the 2d, but the night was so dark, the heat and dust so excessive and the roads so intricate and hard to keep, that the head of column only reached Old Cold Harbor at six o'clock, but was in position at 7.30 A.M. Preparations were made for an attack in the afternoon, but did not take place until the next morning.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

By noon many of the shops on Westow Hill and private residences on College Hill and Sydenham Hill had been wantonly ignited by the enemy; but when the firing ceased [298] some hours later, the roads were heaped with the corpses of those whose mission it had been to destroy London.
— from The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux

The Union men who had returned to their homes and the late Confederates joined together and went to building and repairing old church houses and school-houses and soon were found worshiping together in the same church and sending their children to the same school-houses and the old ties that had existed before the war were being re-united.
— from A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas Being an Account of the Early Settlements, the Civil War, the Ku-Klux, and Times of Peace by William Monks

Passing "Massena," the Aspinwall property, we see— Montgomery Place , residence of Carleton Hunt and sisters, about one-half mile north of Barrytown, formerly [page 148] occupied by Mrs. Montgomery, wife of General Montgomery and sister of Chancellor Livingston.
— from The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Wallace Bruce

The festive season was nearly at an end, for it was the 20th of February; but the evening had been more than usually gay, and had been spent in games at chess, tables, or backgammon, reading romances of chivalry, harping, and singing.
— from A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

[Page 79] The wolves and coyotes have learned to seek the ranges of cattle, horses and sheep, where they still do immense damage, chiefly in killing young stock.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

But under the long rows of coats, hats, and shoes, there was a pool of water.
— from News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) Spencer