Popularity, as most men knew, was, in Kimberley, an expensive luxury, and it would be shown that for some time past, Farnborough had moved and lived in a somewhat extravagant set.
— from From Veldt Camp Fires by H. A. (Henry Anderson) Bryden

He had remained at "The First and Last Inn," at Sennen, ever since,—partly to be near his friend Fowler, and partly because he fancied the removal to another place might cause [Pg 61] a return of those dreadful feelings of nervous terror which he had now in a measure overcome.
— from The Wizard of West Penwith: A Tale of the Land's-End by William Bentinck Forfar

When he tells us that he went on calmly reading and taking notes during the eruption of Vesuvius, though the hot ashes were threatening to overwhelm the villa in which he was staying, or when he quotes the really execrable verses which some scribbler of the day composed in his honour, with the most exquisite self-complacency, one is tempted to show a little impatience at such extravagant self-satisfaction.
— from The Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 by the Younger Pliny