But now I am grown loathsome even to sluts, Poor girls of the people, and they and all men Turn scornful from me.
— from The Nō Plays of Japan by Arthur Waley

A growing local expenditure (though stationary for the last four years).
— from The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers

While this rug has evidently done duty for many years, it was probably folded away after use at prayer, and given little exposure to sunlight.
— from The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs by G. Griffin (George Griffin) Lewis

Confident in the irresistible strength derived from a great army, the King looked down on malcontents and libellers with a wise disdain; and gave little encouragement to spies and informers.
— from Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Round the bend at Bic Island one came ashore one time and got left every tide, so she was aout of water an hour or so every day.
— from Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various

That night Frederick Temple dreamed that the sun smiled on him in a peculiarly sweet manner; he dreamed, still further, that it beckoned him to follow it to the far north, whereupon Fred was suddenly transformed into a gigantic locomotive engine; the sun all at once became a green dragon with pink eyes and a blue tail; and he set off in chase of it into the Arctic regions with a noise like a long roar of the loudest thunder!
— from Chasing the Sun by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

There must be in the highest heaven a “greater light,” even the Sun of Righteousness, or life sinks beneath a darkness that may be felt.
— from The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

The tripod fire was burning as fiercely as ever, and gave light enough to show Jones—fast asleep!
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various