We accomplished this easily between breakfast and dinner, found a very comfortable hotel with very fair cooking and excellent wines.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

She was standing on the eastern balcony, buttoning a dainty grey glove, while Manisty a few paces from her was lounging in a deck-chair, with the English newspapers.
— from Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Their sorrows, eclipsed by those of the equally brave Belgians, and dimmed by being more remote in point of distance, are not, I think, fully realized in England; especially as they are defended by one of the largest armies in the world.
— from In the Russian Ranks: A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by John Morse

A record was kept of the number of passengers carried; for, as each passenger entered, a number was automatically registered by a small machine under the footboard, the exit being by another door.
— from To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks

And the truth was that at this time Hobb was all three, since love, dear maidens, commands a region that extends beyond birth and death, and includes all that is mortal in all that is eternal.
— from Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon

But as those elements, both before and during the war, were as a voice crying in the wilderness of Prussian militarism, they were condemned to silence when the dreaded thing became a reality; and the only note that issued forth from Berlin was the "inspired" croak in the government-controlled press that only the expected had happened; that Hindenburg's plans had been made with exact regard for that which had now supervened, and that Germany's irresistible march to victory would not and could not be arrested by anything the Americans could do.
— from The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time by Frederic William Wile

"It was only this condition that could justify the favoured treatment enjoyed by Brussels, as distinguished from the other cities of Belgium which will not have their requisition orders settled until after the conclusion of peace.
— from A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson

These exceedingly broad beds are divided, as usual, by long lines of Nature-metalled ground.
— from The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The last Examiner [15] was a battering-ram against Christianity, blasphemy, Tertullian, Erasmus, Sir Philip Sidney; and then the dreadful Petzelians and their expiation by blood; and do Christians shudder at the same thing in a newspaper which they attribute to their God in its most aggravated form?
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats