8. These three guineas deducted, I still had nine, or thereabouts.—De Quincey.
9. Speaking in quite unofficial language, what is the net purpose and upshot of war?—Carlyle.
10. The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole.—Dickens.
11. Thus inundated by mighty rivers, quaking beneath the level of the ocean, belted about by hirsute forests, this low land, nether land, hollow land, or Holland, seemed hardly deserving the arms of the all-accomplished Roman.—Motley.
12. The writing is a kind of pugilism—the strokes being made straight out from the shoulder.—Howells.
13. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.—Kipling.
14. The schoolmaster now bestowed both whip and heel upon the starveling ribs of old Gunpowder, who dashed forward, snuffling and snorting.—Irving.
15. At last he heard them entering the defile.
16. Five lakes are spread over the valley, occupying one tenth of its surface.—Prescott.
17. Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy hissing hot.—Dickens.