Leaving the "Bowl" and threading the narrow passage of High Street, Bloomsbury, the processions, passing St. Giles's Pound, came into the "Tyburn Road," called sometimes "the Oxford Road," and now, and since about 1718, styled Oxford Street.
— from Half-hours with the Highwaymen - Vol 1 Picturesque Biographies and Traditions of the "Knights of the Road" by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

They would not, of course, have thought of reading a novel at such a time.
— from A Country Gentleman and His Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

We must now leave the cutter to return to Portsmouth, while we introduce to our readers a new and strange association.
— from Snarleyyow; or, The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat

The record of the findings and sentences, to which the petition was attached, was kept from the official reporters, and not a soul outside a close coterie in the War Department was allowed to set eyes on it.
— from The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by David Miller DeWitt