The different forms of poetry and narrative, and descriptions, sketches, essays, and letters are represented.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

The professor and the Secretary exchanged a look, a raising of eyebrows, then a shrug of surrender.
— from The Business, As Usual by Jack Sharkey

This speech elicited a laugh all round, and seemed to congeal Miss Charlotte's blood in her veins.
— from The Tree of Knowledge: A Novel by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

As you know, the Princess H——, until the death of her child, at the age of four, resided in the country, where she kept up a small establishment, and lived a remarkably quiet life.
— from The House of Strange Secrets: A Detective Story by A. Eric Bayly

Sir Edmund and Lady Andros rode in a coach in Boston in 1687, and there were then a few other carriages in town.
— from Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle

[Pg 331] Between 1873 and 1890 the American origin of the Eskimo is repeatedly asserted by Rink, who for 16 winters and 22 summers lived with the eastern Eskimo, first as a scientific explorer and later as royal inspector or governor of the southern Danish settlements in Greenland (preface by R. Brown to Rink's Tales and Traditions, 1875).
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička

A corp of officers, respectable in their persons, character and rank in private society, was of itself sufficient to secure esteem and lead a regiment where every man was a soldier.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean