A great number of people were collected at a vendue.—Franklin.
All our household are at rest.—Coleridge.
A party of workmen were removing the horses.—Lew Wallace
The fraternity were inclined to claim for him the honors of canonization.—Scott.
The travelers, of whom there were a number.—B. Taylor.
(3) When the subject consists of several singulars connected by and, making up a plural subject, for example,—
Only Vice and Misery are abroad.—Carlyle
But its authorship, its date, and its history are alike a mystery to us.—Froude.
His clothes, shirt, and skin were all of the same color—Swift.
Aristotle and Longinus are better understood by him than Littleton or Coke.—Addison.