But soon a funeral hymn was heard
Where the soft breath of evening stirred
The tall, gray forest.—Longfellow.
9. Ever since Mr. Hobart’s “eleven and a bit” was left on the kitchen bed, Jess had hungered for a cloak with beads.—Barrie.
10. I was coming in, one summer night, from a long walk in the country, when I met this apparition at the city gate.—H. James.
11. People take their literature in morsels, as they take sandwiches on a journey.—Bagehot.
12. Scarcely was the artillery got into position when a rapid fire was opened on it from the tower.
13. As Venice in winter is the dreariest and gloomiest place in the world, so in spring it is the fullest of joy and light.—Howells.
14. Where population is sparse, discussion is difficult.
15. These newspaper fellows are half asleep when they make up their reports at two or three o’clock in the morning, and fill out the speeches to suit themselves.—Holmes.