The other room below it, equally large but not so high, was used as the supper-room.
— from The Orange Girl by Walter Besant

No doubt it would be difficult to balance the creditor and debtor account as between poetry and painting; the earlier pictorial landscapes borrowed some hints from the older romances; but in England, at least, landscapes of wild rocks, page 54
— from Romance: Two Lectures by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

“He’ll be sold up, and I’ll buy the place—I will, by God, even if it’s the only rotten bargain I ever made in my life.
— from A Secret of the Lebombo by Bertram Mitford

While the plenipotentiaries were busy over their task of restoring boundaries in Europe, and the other restoration was going on pleasantly in Paris, a rumor came that Napoleon was in Lyons.
— from A Short History of France by Mary Platt Parmele

As his new acquaintance paused for breath after this long answer to a short question, J.W., remembering something Fred Finch had said, brought the remark in: "The man who is showing me the ropes as a hardware man tells me that all over Latin America the church is likely to be the one real building in every town and village.
— from John Wesley, Jr. The Story of an Experiment by Dan B. (Dan Brearley) Brummitt

General Morgan accompanied me, and during the 28th the active column of three and a half brigades was concentrated, two or three other regiments being in echelon along the river below.
— from Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox