It was near four o'clock in the afternoon.

Eli was in the shop.

His eldest and youngest sons were abroad.

Catherine and her little crippled daughter had long been anxious about Gerard, and now they were gone a little way down the road, to see if by good luck he might be visible in the distance; and Giles was alone in the sitting-room, which I will sketch, furniture and dwarf included.
The Hollanders were always an original and leading people.

They claim to have invented printing (wooden type), oil-painting, liberty, banking, gardening, etc.