At the tea-table, that evening, Mr. Preston expressed his displeasure with Oscar's conduct in very pointed terms.
— from Oscar The Boy Who Had His Own Way by Walter Aimwell

These extraordinary mental powers enabled him to master the most complex political situations and on the battlefield to turn many a defeat into victory.
— from The Mentor: Julius Cæsar, Vol. 6, Num. 2, Serial No. 150, March 1, 1918 by George Willis Botsford

The British Military Attaché raised the point that England might perhaps exercise her rights and duties, as one of the Powers guaranteeing Belgium, without waiting for the appeal to be made to her.
— from The Great War and How It Arose by Anonymous

XXXIV D URING supper that evening Mrs. Porter eyed her daughter furtively.
— from Pole Baker: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

No, it is husky by reason of a cold which, despite certain woolen nightcaps wherewith the excellent Madam Plauche equipped him for the field, he has contracted in sleeping damply among the stubble and the river fogs.
— from When Men Grew Tall, or The Story of Andrew Jackson by Alfred Henry Lewis