He would begin to serve your guests out of a keg that was half full, and finish with one that was half empty, and then you would be charged for two kegs of beer.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Now comes the woman's part in the drama on which the curtain rose with the pressing of Parker in '83, and fell, not with his execution at the yard-arm of the Sandwich , as one would suppose, but four days after that event.
— from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson

She followed with her eyes as the young people separated in the hall, some climbing stairs, some disappearing down side halls, some entering adjoining doors.
— from A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

The great Order of our Lady of Montblanch which had endured a thousand years, perished in one day because of the vengeance of Luis Fernandez and the madness of the priest Anselmo.
— from The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

At that early period he constructed a model of a steam engine attached to a barge, which he explained, about the year 1793, to Robert Fulton.
— from Automobile Biographies An Account of the Lives and the Work of Those Who Have Been Identified with the Invention and Development of Self-Propelled Vehicles on the Common Roads by Lyman Horace Weeks

He won the battle of Allia against the Romans, and in consequence of it made himself master of their city, which he entered about the year 363 from its foundation, and committed every excess which wanton barbarity could dictate.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley

Gwynneth was in that other world which had existed all these years within half-a-mile of this one.
— from Peccavi by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Where was the fascination which had enthralled alike the youthful Rosalie and the impassioned Therésa?
— from Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz

Was he ever asked, that you know of, why he had delayed so long?
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

"How do you like our new acquaintance, Dora?" asked Aunt Pen, following Joe Leavenworth with her eye, as the "yellow-haired laddie" whirled by with the ponderous Miss Flora.
— from A Modern Cinderella; Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott