Rodber had gone away to a public school: the elder Macalister and Garrod had both got bicycles which occupied all their time:
— from Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie

Assuredly, with the increase, impossible to be denied, of conditions unfavourable to church-going, the influence which could arrest the tendencies of thought at present supposed to exist must be a powerful one.
— from A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist by T. Baron Russell

This was done until we had good works, and until Grant had so lengthened his line that nearly all of Lee's army was required to face him, leaving but a handful to relieve those who had worked the hardest, and who were also held as a kind of reserve, ready to go to any point, should the enemy make an assault.
— from Reminiscences of a Private by Frank M. Mixson, Company "E" 1st S. C. Vols. (Hagood's) by Frank M. Mixson