Though situated nearer Queen Street than Richmond Street, it faced the latter, and was approached from the latter.—It was Mr. Montgomery who obtained by legal process the opening of Queen Street in the rear of his property.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The sample is just in other ways: limpid, fluent, graceful, and rhythmical as it is, it holds no superiority in these respects over the rest of the essay.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Imagine the surprise of the Royal Society of England when the poor unknown Herschel sent in the report of his discovery of the star Georgium Sidus, its orbit and rate of motion; and of the rings and satellites of Saturn.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

And with a fresher growth replenishing the void. VI. Such is the refuge of our youth and age, The first from Hope, the last from Vacancy; And this worn feeling peoples many a page, And, may be, that which grows beneath mine eye: Yet there are things whose strong reality Outshines our fairy-land; in shape and hues More beautiful than our fantastic sky,
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The first fire happened in the Marian war, after which it was rebuilt by Pompey, the second in the reign of Vitellius.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

I had no share in the rejoicings of that evening.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Meantime when Alexander perceived that nearly all the Persian cavalry had changed their ground and gone to his left towards the sea, and that on his side only the Peloponnesians and the rest of the Grecian cavalry were posted there, he sent the Thessalian cavalry thither with speed, ordering them not to ride along before the front of the whole array, lest they should be seen by the enemy to be shifting their ground, but to proceed by stealth in the rear of the phalanx.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

“I mean,” answered the little priest, and his voice seemed to rise slightly in the roar of the gale.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Bear in mind how well worth preserving is the pleasure felt by those of you who through your knowledge of our language and imitation of our manners were always considered Athenians, even though not so in reality, and as such were honoured throughout Hellas, and had your full share of the advantages of our empire, and more than your share in the respect of our subjects and in protection from ill treatment.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

For that thou hast made it to stand in the room of Jesus, and hast dared to commend thyself to the living God thereby: For thou hast trusted in thy shadow of righteousness, and committed iniquity.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

“Has he stumbled into the river of gold yet?” asked Cap.
— from Those Smith Boys on the Diamond; or, Nip and Tuck for Victory by Howard Roger Garis

His business is his medium of self-expression; his success is the realization of his ideal.
— from The Gate of Appreciation: Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes

Perhaps there is no family, in its wanderings and struggles towards remotest posterity, that has not experienced every vicissitude of fortune; sometimes standing in the ranks of the great; and in the lapse of ages descending to the lower strata of the social scale, and there becoming historically lost.
— from Lost Lenore: The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Mayne Reid

History informs us that there were two Shawnee settlements in this region, one in the adjoining county of Maryland (Allegany), and another in the neighborhood of Winchester, Va.
— from The Problem of the Ohio Mounds by Cyrus Thomas

They lingered in Scotland in the reign of Charles II., and in Ireland in the reign of Queen Anne.
— from The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

The orderlies would be lying about taking a rest until their services were needed, and the doctors with their white aprons on would be sitting in the room or in their mess near by.
— from The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott

And yet this was no new spring in the revolution of the seasons.
— from Journal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

It is hard to think of such a man doing serious service in the role of radical journalist—as if he could speak dangerous things!
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 4: The Later Georges to Victoria by Donald Grant Mitchell