The villages were of rare occurrence, but when seen presented road-ways as broad as the boulevards of great cities, yet only lined by low, turf-roofed cabins.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
I only know that although the occurrence happened within half an hour ago, it seems to me an affair of days since.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
Amid a mass of correspondence about the estate, she came at length upon the foreign letters, of which there were several from the servants to their friends or relations at Cro' Martin,-all, as usual, under cover to Miss Martin; and at last she found one in Lady Dorothea's own hand, for herself,-a very rare occurrence; nay, indeed, it was the first epistle her Ladyship had favored her with since her departure.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever