Mere Irish were set upon in the streets, in the shops, in their homes, and hurried off to prison as if the very existence of the empire depended on their being subjected to every kind of brutal violence and indignity.
— from The Dock and the Scaffold The Manchester Tragedy and the Cruise of the Jacknell by T. D. (Timothy Daniel) Sullivan

In the offices, in the stores, in the shops, on the streets, in the schools, in the homes the one, sole topic of conversation, the one mental obsession was The Great Game.
— from To Him That Hath: A Tale of the West of Today by Ralph Connor

And as the heart in animals is the principall soul of life, the same is the Sunne in the heart of the world; and the primordiall spring of all light therein, which he departs to the Stars, as doth Jesus Christ to our souls.
— from A Discovrse of Fire and Salt Discovering Many Secret Mysteries as well Philosophicall, as Theologicall by Blaise de Vigenère

In the meantime tongues wagged on the subject in the shops, in the houses, in the streets, and at the Promenade—there was no end to it.
— from The Fourth Estate, vol. 1 by Armando Palacio Valdés

But to awaken truth thus sleeping in the soul is the highest use of discipline, the noblest aim of culture, and the most eminent service which man can render to man.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various