Suffolk and Norfolk thus each received a separate bishopric.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

All that day they travelled without halt, and when they stopped at night to encamp, Roy was nearly dead from exhaustion.
— from Silver Lake by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

A mass of hills that I had formerly seen and named the Everard Ranges, lay in that direction, and I desired to visit them also.
— from Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 by Ernest Giles

He scribbled a note that evening, reporting to headquarters: "No result yet.
— from The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

The existing law is not a rule of right to this body of men in their actual position; it exposes what in truth is their property, the benefits they have added to the land, to be [245] confiscated by a summary process; it sets at naught the equitable right acquired by a transfer for value with the assent of the landlord."
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

But when two persons live in the same apartment, notwithstanding the eleven rooms and so on, a monotony of existence pervades even the grandeur of velvet-panelled walls.
— from The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley

The blizzard, Sir Christopher’s death, Lionel’s coming and terrible experience in the storm, and now this extraordinary ringing of my door-bell, which even the neighbors have heard and are inquiring about—altogether I—I am quite unstrung.”
— from Divided Skates by Evelyn Raymond

See that block of wood change under your eyes and crawl up history on its forthcoming legs—a stool, a chair, a sofa, a settee, and now the endless ranks of sittable furniture wherewith we fill the home to keep ourselves from the floor withal.
— from The home: its work and influence by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Science is of such a nature, that every rural physic-man laments because there are no means of curing working-men, because he is so poor that he has not the means to place the sick man in the proper hygienic conditions; and at the same time this physician complains that there are no hospitals, and that he cannot get through with his work, that he needs assistants, more doctors and practitioners.
— from On the Significance of Science and Art by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

They left softly, and neither the exciting recollections of the day's adventures nor the tumult of the braves outside could hold her for a moment longer from the blessedness of sleep.
— from The Perils of Pauline by Charles Goddard