In the Hellenistic and Roman periods efforts were made to give adornment to such tombs.
— from Archæology and the Bible by George A. (George Aaron) Barton

“If we’re meaning to have a real pleasant evening,” spoke up Davy Jones, with a determined look upon his face; “then I move that the first thing we do is to make Bumpus here sink his old suit in the swamp, and put on his nice clean one.”
— from The Boy Scouts Down in Dixie; or, The Strange Secret of Alligator Swamp by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

And then one of the good souls intimated that it was sad to have a relation publicly executed: he must pass as a criminal.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various

Platts, p. 4), فرش هوس "the carpet of desire" (ib. p. 113), etc., which are a particular ornament of the highly artificial rhymed prose, employed in works like the Gulistān and Bahāristān .
— from The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany by Arthur F. J. Remy

Farther on was discovered a tolerably high and regular paling, enclosing the whole of the top of a hill.
— from Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by William Henry Giles Kingston

Without a shadow of hesitation the Mahatma turns his horse at a right angle from the line the hounds are running, possibly even in a diametrically opposite direction.
— from Some Irish Yesterdays by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

This had a rather peculiar effect on me.
— from My Life and My Efforts by Karl May