There was something pathetic and appealing for me in this great sweeping together of people into a little light, into a weak community of desire for joy and eventfulness.
"The Passionate Friends"
Herbert George Wells
We all know there are days of happenings; days charged with vitality and eventfulness; when nothing surprises and nothing seems out of the way,-it seemed quite a commonplace occurrence on the present occasion, when a motor car, full to the brim, whirled to the Abbey door.
"Leonore Stubbs"
L. B. Walford