18. The river was swollen with the long rains.—Stevenson.
19. Farms, stripped of their fences and deserted by their owners, had for years produced only weeds.—Greeley.
20. Granting the horse, granting good companionship, granting a good seat, and a pleasant day, a horseback ride certainly does unite all the requisites for healthful exercise.—Hale.
21. I have sometimes been puzzled in Venice to know why churches should keep cats, church-mice being proverbially so poor and so little capable of sustaining a cat in good condition.—Howells.
22. Her heavy black hair lay in a braided coil, with a long gold pin shot through it like a javelin.—Holmes.
23. Thirty years ago, Last Island lay steeped in the enormous light of even such magical days.—Hearn.
24. The tower had just been vacated by the garrison, who, hearing of the approach of the Austrians, had fled, leaving their arms, consisting of thirty excellent muskets.
25. And then again a thousand echoes go booming along the iron-bound coast.—Black.
26. You see it growing gradually less dense.—Tyndall.
27. Touching the Giant’s Stairs in the court of the palace, the inexecrable dates would not permit me to rest in the delusion that the head of Marin Falier had once bloodily stained them as it rolled to the ground.—Howells.