James always said you ought to be a queen; but this is not at all being like a queen.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

In addressing you by appellations unusual, I believe, on similar occasions, no affectation of singularity has dictated the innovation: my terms flow from a more dignified principle, a purer source of ideas, from a sentiment of liberal and extensive affection, which embraces and contemplates not only such of you as by law are qualified to vote, but also such as a contracted and short-sighted policy has restrained from the immediate enjoyment of that privilege.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

This shalt thou see with thine own eyes, and be Lady and Queen, with Havelok, o’er these lands.”
— from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt

Her voice is strident, her laugh too much like a giggle, and she has that foolish way of dancing and bobbing like a quill-float with a "minnum" biting the hook below it, which one sees and weeps over sometimes in persons of more pretensions.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Other Colored musicians who have achieved success and recognition as band leaders are quite numerous in America, and a few of them are mentioned herewith; Lieut.
— from Colored girls and boys' inspiring United States history and a heart to heart talk about white folks by William Henry Harrison

Her voice is strident, her laugh too much like a giggle, and she has that foolish way of dancing and bobbing like a quill-float with a “minnum” biting the hook below it, which one sees and weeps over sometimes in persons of more pretensions.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

You've always been like a quaint, bright picture and a piece of music in my mind.—I don't know your name."
— from Hagar by Mary Johnston

That son of yours, Madame--he is a brave lad, and quite intelligent.
— from Jean Baptiste: A Story of French Canada by James Edward Le Rossignol

It struck one as being like a quiet seaside town in England, and Mrs. Frederick and I enjoyed the change very much.
— from The Golden South: Memories of Australian Home Life from 1843 to 1888 by Kathleen Lambert

He was a short, thick man of enormous physical strength, and he sported a beard like a quickset hedge, hence his nickname.
— from The Woman from Outside [On Swan River] by Hulbert Footner

Aside from canal reform, still drifting through seas of talk, the legislative session presented several insistent public questions which seemed to have imposed their cumulative worry on his morning hours; later had come an acrimonious hearing over the removal of an incompetent district attorney; then a quarter-hour's fencing with the press correspondents, who wanted to know things which it was inexpedient to tell; and, finally, a rasping conference with the Boss, who, using the ball as a cover for one of his rare pilgrimages to Albany, had, throughout the day, held levee in his hotel parlors with such vogue that at moments both Senate and Assembly all but lacked a quorum.
— from The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther

Then, a mere atom of the thronging multitude, I was swept on by the guiding hands of belaced and bepowdered lackeys, and, quite in keeping with the unexpectedness of all things in London, I found myself suddenly embarked on a sightseeing tour.
— from The Emily Emmins Papers by Carolyn Wells