Instead, he lifted the silk hangings and passed out of sight.
— from The Great Prince Shan by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Au revoir , my dear George: I still have a pair of old shoes to patch and a corn or two to trim."
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

The Guid Man is a rough-looking hardy stout Man who I think does not speak so much English as the Guid wife who is very obliging and sensible and moreover though stockingless has a pair of old Shoes—Last night some Whisky Men sat up clattering Gaelic till I am sure one o’Clock to our great annoyance.
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

She has a place on one side of the big desk, he on the other.
— from William Jennings Bryan: A Concise But Complete Story of His Life and Services by Harvey Ellsworth Newbranch

My father, when Worshipful Master of the Scourers’ Company, or in his year of office as Lord Mayor, would sometimes have a peer on one side and a bishop on the other.
— from The Chaplain of the Fleet by James Rice

The intermediate miles were marked by smaller stones, having a P on one side and an M on the other, all the stones thus used for monuments being sent out from England.
— from America, Volume 1 (of 6) by Joel Cook