Charley Melton went homeward, turned, and walked right up to the Euston Road, where he made for Park Crescent, and then walked straight down Portland Placc, so as to try and catch a glimpse of his inamorata .
— from Lady Maude's Mania by George Manville Fenn

A common print gown, clean and summery-looking, showed her soft outlines at least as well as a more modish affair would; and the sleeves rolled up to the elbows revealed Diana's beautiful arms.
— from Diana by Susan Warner

She had inherited the magnificent stature for which her family had for centuries been remarkable, united to the excessive refinement of contour and delicacy of feature which had made "the Dene Beauties" world-renowned.
— from Barren Honour: A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

It seemed to them that the hour had come for revenge upon their twofold enemy, Roman and Christian, for the humiliations which they had borne for centuries.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

They didn't move them back because they wasn't actually—what 192 they were trying to do was clear a hall because they were crowded right up to the entrance right here.
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun remain unmoved, that the earth revolves about the sun in the circumference of a circle, the sun lying in the centre of the orbit, and that the sphere of the fixed stars, situated about the same centre as the sun, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the earth to revolve bears such a ratio to the distance of the fixed stars as the centre of the sphere bears to its surface.”
— from Archimedes by Heath, Thomas Little, Sir