Through the park railings these glances beheld men and women riding in the Row, […] solitary horsemen looking unsociable, and solitary women followed at a long distance by a groom with a cockade to his hat and a leather belt over his tight-fitting coat.

Since he bought the book, it's just been sitting on the bookshelf and gathering dust.

A last cricket scratched mournfully at its rebab.

An endocrine gland is one that secretes its products directly into the bloodstream.