As a romantic poet, Spenser often preferred archaic and semi-obsolete language to more modern forms.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

For as used as a relative pronoun, see § 147 .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

At any rate, Phoebe soon felt that, if not the profound insight of a seer, yet a more than feminine delicacy of appreciation, was making her heart the subject of its regard.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ANT: Allay, relegate, pacify, soothe, conciliate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

You cannot doubt which verbs to include in your bracket, for qui , which is a subordinate conjunction as well as a relative pronoun, serves as a sure signpost.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

As she boarded with Mrs. Stanton at a reduced price she managed to keep her expenses within this limit.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

So we are a rescue party,” said Peter, with pride.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Lastly, METHOD, MODE OF ACTING, is an always recurring proceeding selected out of several possible ones; and METHODICISM (METHODISMUS) is that which is determined by methods instead of by general principles or particular prescriptions.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

But after all, a radiant peace settled upon her when she at last found herself alone.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Dom Pedro, who had throughout the struggle been the heart and soul of his daughter’s party, had thus the pleasure of seeing the country at peace, and a regular parliamentary system in operation, but he did not long survive, for on the 24th of September, 1834, he died at Queluz near Lisbon, of an illness brought on by his great labours and fatigues, leaving a name, which deserves all honour from Portuguese and Brazilians alike.
— from The Story of the Nations: Portugal by H. Morse (Henry Morse) Stephens

During his rule the peace of the empire was disturbed only by a brief rising in Gaul (21 A. D. ) and a rather prolonged struggle with Tacfarinas, a rebellious Berber chieftain, in Numidia (17–24 A. D. ).
— from A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur E. R. (Arthur Edward Romilly) Boak

—The semi-formal nature of such a MS. would seem to permit of a good quill—not necessarily sharp—being used with the utmost freedom and all reasonable personal sleight of hand ; of soft tinted inks—such as browns and brown-reds; of an un -ruled page ( a pattern page ruled dark, being laid under the writing paper, will, by showing through, keep the writing sufficiently straight ), and of a minimum of precision in the arrangement of the text.
— from Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering by Edward Johnston

[Pg 356] The cap of this species strongly resembles Boletus alveolatus, but the latter has rose-colored spores and a red pore surface, while the former has light brown spores and an olive-yellow pore surface.
— from The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

In witness whereof , as a royal preacher said, the Alexandrian library!
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

But both nominations could be defended on their own merits, and a Regius Professorship should not be the monopoly of a clique.
— from The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul

Always dainty, and prettily dressed, she was in speckless and starchy white to-day, and a refreshing picture she made, with the new-shorn and powerfully scented Mitchy-Mitch clinging to her hand.
— from Penrod by Booth Tarkington

One reads here of home-life in the captive city when bread was scarce among the people of the lower classes, and a reckless prodigality shown by the British officers, who passed the winter in feasting and merry-making while the members of the patriot army but a few miles away were suffering from both cold and hunger.
— from A World of Girls: The Story of a School by L. T. Meade

Instead of being expensive, they will be sold at a reasonable price, sufficient to repay the manufacturers, and to leave a fair profit; thus placing them within the reach of all—the million as well as the millionaire.
— from Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions by Alexis Soyer

"But there are so many other pains, so much worse, that it seems absurd to talk of mere toothache as a real pain," she objected, and Anstice laughed.
— from Afterwards by Kathlyn Rhodes