15. Call her, King of France, but she will not hear thee!—De Quincey.
16. The beauty of the scene increased, thanks largely to the brilliant effects of cloud masses and an ardent setting sun.—Bolles.
17. As for the carnival, which once lasted six months of the year, charming hither all the idlers of the world by its peculiar splendor and variety of pleasure, it does not, as I said, any longer exist.—Howells.
18. The fireplace, it should be noted, was built on the side of the room opposite to the windows; that is to say, in one of the partition walls.—J. Hawthorne.
19.
Ho! ye who suffer! know
Ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels.
—E. Arnold.
20. And now, being a trifle choleric in his temperament, the lieutenant governor uplifted the heavy hilt of his sword, wherewith he so beat and banged upon the door that, as some of the bystanders whispered, the racket might have disturbed the dead.—Hawthorne.
21. Maule’s Lane, or Pyncheon Street, as it were now more decorous to call it, was thronged at the appointed hour as with a congregation on its way to church.—Hawthorne.