No stranger who by chance might see her ex-highness at home, with her pretty feet thrust into down-trodden old leather shoes, and her unkempt hair covered by a common cotton rebosa , could ever, by the greatest effort of imagination, possibly fancy her to be the same person who once dazzled Mexico by a display of pomp that exceeded even that of the Empress Carlotta.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

I am desirous of prefacing the English edition of the “History of Creation” with a few remarks which may serve to explain the origin and object of this book.
— from The History of Creation, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel

[951] Wolsey felt that the time for reform had passed, and began the process of suppression, with a view to increasing the number of cathedrals and devoting other proceeds to educational endowments.
— from Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

Let us pass on without more ado to a discussion of points that establish equally well that he was careless of every other consideration but the eliciting of laughter.
— from The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Wilton W. (Wilton Wallace) Blancké