In fact, a room with four or five mirrors arranged at random, is, for all purposes of artistic show, a room of no shape at all.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Passing along the Putney Bridge Road from the High Street, Brewhouse Lane runs north to the waterside; on one side are rows of new shops, on the other a swimming-bath.
— from Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney by John Cunningham Geikie

French opinion, like that expressed in England, appears to have been that the Northern successes in the spring of 1862 might result in such a rehabilitation of Northern self-esteem that suggestions of now recognizing the facts of the situation and acknowledging the independence of the South would not be unfavourably received.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

I do not believe that Rome, when Adrian reared the mighty Colosseum, and the Palace of the Cæsars covered the Capitoline Hill, exhibited such a range of noble structures as now exists in the Admiralty Quarter.
— from Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John L. Stephens

We saw a row of narrow, slattern cottages, their backs over the sea, and in front of them marched to and fro a magnificent soldier laced in gold, with chinking spurs and a rifle.
— from Sacred and Profane Love: A Novel in Three Episodes by Arnold Bennett

But this was set at rest, or nearly so, by a closer scrutiny.
— from Bruin: The Grand Bear Hunt by Mayne Reid

Saw a regiment of negro soldiers, who seemed to feel fine, were having all sorts of games and were in first-rate spirits.
— from Diary of an Enlisted Man by Lawrence Van Alstyne