10. Any language study is good mind training while acquiring vocabulary.
11. My farm consisted of about twenty acres of excellent land, having given a hundred pounds for my predecessor's lease.
12. Prepared to encounter a woman of disordered mind, the appearance presented by Mrs. Taylor at his entrance greatly astonished him.
13. Pale and swooning, with two broken legs, they carried him into the house.
14. Count Cassini, the Russian plenipotentiary, had several long and intimate conversations during the tedious weeks of the conference with his British colleague, Sir Arthur Nicholson.
15. But though they had been victorious in the land engagements, they were so little decisive as to lead to no important results.
16. Knowing nothing of the rules of the college or of its customs, it was with the greatest difficulty that the Dean could make me comprehend wherein my wrong-doing lay.
17. Fire, therefore, was the first object of my search. Happily, some embers were found upon the hearth, together with potato-stalks and dry chips. Of these, with much difficulty, I kindled a fire, by which some warmth was imparted to our shivering limbs.
18. In this connection a great deal of historic fact is introduced into the novel about the past history of the cathedral and of Spain.
19. Over the whole scene hung the haze of twilight that is so peaceful.