But after going a score of paces such an extraordinary spectacle struck their eyes that they stood still as if thunderstruck.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
How hopeless it makes one of humanity to see such a spectacle as this, Harry, and how low is one's estimate of the species after such experience!
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
In the presence of this spectacle I must confess, in justice to myself, that I began to be somewhat consoled for the absence of Paris, and the Boulevard des Italiens.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot