Two hours afterwards, Madame Danglars received a most flattering epistle from the count, in which he entreated her to receive back her favorite “dappled grays,” protesting that he could not endure the idea of making his entry into the Parisian world of fashion with the knowledge that his splendid equipage had been obtained at the price of a lovely woman’s regrets.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Half an hour afterwards M. de Richelieu asked me which of the two actresses pleased me most by her beauty.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Meanwhile, the Count remained in a cottage in the skirts of the woods below, suffering under bodily and mental pain, and meditating deep revenge against Montoni.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

of ——, and Mr. St. George, and Captain Leslie, and Mr. De Retz, and many others."
— from The Disowned — Volume 04 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

“Lord Borodaile,” said she, “and the Duke of ——, and Mr. St. George, and Captain Leslie, and Mr. De Retz, and many others.”
— from The Disowned — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Sanitary reforms were required, the growing traffic in the principal streets called for better and more durable roadways, and Macadamised and granite paved streets no longer answered the purposes required.
— from A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" by Thomas Anderton

It appears Madame des Roys and Madame de Genlis had some pitched battles in those days, or, as Madame de Lamartine afterward expresses it, deux camps opposés .
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

They were all in new and more desirable rooms and Martin was free from the domination of Galer.
— from Years of Plenty by Ivor John Carnegie Brown

Esther and her father, possessed of a calm, holy joy deeper than ever before, were seated in his study, while with them were Dr. and Mrs. Dale, Rosa and Mrs. Gray.
— from Rosa's Quest Or, The Way to the Beautiful Land by Anna Potter Wright

If they are really virtues they must be generally good as means; nor do I wish to dispute that most virtues, commonly considered as such, as well as most duties, really are means to good.
— from Principia Ethica by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

"Take my advice, Mazarin, and behave yourself for the future so as to merit my favour; you cannot, 70 for your own sake, be too anxious to deserve it Heaven preserve you from venturing on any more disparaging remarks about my conduct!
— from My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Wilkie Collins

There were many others—the Delesserts, of the French Protestant faction, Madame Suard, to whom the romantic Thomas Day had paid court some thirty years before, and Madame Campan, and Madame Récamier, and Madame de Rémusat, and Madame de Houdetot, now seventy-two years of age, but Rousseau's Julie still, and Camille Jordan, and the Chevalier Edelcrantz, from the Court of the King of Sweden.
— from A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Anne Thackeray Ritchie