One of them, tall and thin, was Monsieur Saribe, the oil merchant, and the other, short and fat, was Monsieur Parisse.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Like the square temples of Masonry, and the other Mysteries, they were symbolic of the world, and the symbol was completed by making the circumference of the circle a representation of the zodiac.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

"That was well done," said the old man and the old woman.
— from Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome

Thus the clinical symptoms must often be very indefinite (Stoerk and Haendel), so that one may assume that only a slight percentage of cases of Hymenolepis nana come under observation and are published as such.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

Poker, too, languished as a popular pastime; the demand for morning cocktails had unaccountably fallen off; the bar-keeper would fall asleep at the club-room from sheer lack of employment during the afternoons and early evenings, for many of the married ladies had brought maiden relatives as friends to spend the winter with them, and half a dozen new romances were starting; [Pg 422] and the colonel had his eye on some of the old habitués of "the store," and Wilkins and Crane and one or two other formerly reliable patrons were kept too busy to spend time or money at that once seductive retreat, and with the injustice of embittered human nature it was their wont to ascribe it all to Ray's backsliding, a matter of which that young gentleman was for some time in ignorance.
— from Marion's Faith. by Charles King

When the miser and the soldier reached the boulevard Baron, a place where no one could overhear them, the colonel turned to the old man,— “Monsieur,” he said, “if you will be guided by me, we will never speak together of matters and things, or people either, unless we are walking in the open country, or in places where we cannot be heard.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

A long hour passed in the deepest silence; the old man and the old maid were sitting back to back and thinking, probably both of the same things.
— from Les Misérables, v. 3/5: Marius by Victor Hugo

There were at that time two outstanding agricultural colleges in the United States, that of Massachusetts and that of Michigan.
— from History of Farming in Ontario by C. C. (Charles Canniff) James

But, of all that has been said or sung, what most pleases me is Heine's Apologetic, if I may so call it; in which he says, that the minor poets, who flourished under the imperialreign of Goethe `resemble a young forest, where the trees first show their own magnitude after the oak of a hundred years, whose branches had towered above and overshadowed them, has fallen.
— from Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow