A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

And although European states might have lost their original feudal character, and although new classes had arisen, land-holding still remained the basis of social distinction.
— from The Fathers of the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union by Max Farrand