And there is Beech lane, peradventure so called of Nicholas de la Beech, lieutenant of the Tower of London, put out of that office in the 13th of Edward III.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

“She has promised to tell me tonight at her own house whether she consents or not,” replied Gania.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We were visited by several canoes of natives in the course of the day; most of whom were decending the river with their women and children.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In 1816 he was appointed judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, where he remained until 1824.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

“... In the following cases: physical defect in the married parties, desertion without communication for five years,” he said, crooking a short finger covered with hair, “adultery” (this word he pronounced with obvious satisfaction), “subdivided as follows” (he continued to crook his fat fingers, though the three cases and their subdivisions could obviously not be classified together): “physical defect of the husband or of the wife, adultery of the husband or of the wife.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Throughout our walk she rang the most fanciful changes on this theme; proving, by her obstinate credulity, or incredulity, her incapacity to conceive how any person not bolstered up by birth or wealth, not supported by some consciousness of name or connection, could maintain an attitude of reasonable integrity.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Porchon, colder and more diplomatic, seemed to have special charge of negotiations.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

To the westward of Brighton is the extensive and wealthy suburban city of Newton, a favorite place of rural residence for Bostonians.
— from America, Volume 5 (of 6) by Joel Cook

With this end in view she carried on negotiations with a certain Colonel FitzWilliams, whom she found in Paris, and for the same purpose she cultivated the acquaintance of the agent of the Confederate Catholics in that city, Father O'Hartegan, the Jesuit.
— from Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes

It is, therefore, not wise to assume that the love affairs of Jupiter and of other divinities always symbolize combinations of natural or physical forces that have repeated themselves in ever-varying guise.
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch

You know, we’ve got a man at the studio who could change Hamlet into a slap-stick comedy over night, if the emergency arose.”
— from Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence; Or, The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands by Alice B. Emerson

Haverhill was the great staging centre of New Hampshire; six or eight lines of coaches left there each day.
— from Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle

"Perhaps she knows some charm——" "Oh, nonsense!" said the voice sharply; "she doesn't believe in charms.
— from The Enchanted Castle by E. (Edith) Nesbit