The master of the mint was John Hull who lived in Boston where Pemberton Square now opens from Tremont Street and where later was the famous garden and residence of Gardner Green, Esq.
— from Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow

And here was Peter repeating on general grounds exactly what she had found, and in especial was finding now, to be magically true.
— from Peter by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

The Cashmere travelling merchants, who display their tempting wares at all the hotels, spread out their stuffs in profusion—Bokhara embroideries, Persian covers, kincobs, turbans, and portières of black, red, or green grounds, effectively decorated with designs in the raised wax, such as we saw in the museum—and used all their persuasive arts to effect sales.
— from India Impressions, With some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7. by Walter Crane

To put it bluntly, I never knew the reality of fairyland until I blundered across that road one grey gusty evening ten years ago, and heard the tall grasses whistling in the wind.
— from The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Various

It thus appears that upon the recommendation of General Grant even the Democratic party of Ohio, by their representatives in Congress, voted for equal political rights in Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas!
— from The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes by J. Q. (James Quay) Howard

Gosport (25), a fortified port and market-town in Hants, on the W. side of Portsmouth harbour, opposite Portsmouth, with which it is connected by a floating bridge; its industries embrace flourishing iron-works, barracks, the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard, and Haslar shipyard for the repair of gunboats. Gosse, Edmund , poet, essayist, and critic, born in London, the son of the succeeding; author of "History of Eighteenth Century Literature," a collection of lyrics, and a series of monographs, in particular "Life of Gray"; b . 1849.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall