Mr. Thomas Williams was the treasurer and presided over the box office during this regime, and with such peerless bonhomie as made "Tom" (everybody called him "Tom") the acknowledged prince of ticket sellers.
— from The Mormons and the Theatre; or, The History of Theatricals in Utah by John S. (John Shanks) Lindsay

The King, under the pretence of going to the chase, went about a league from Paris, and, meeting the Elector, conducted him in his carriage.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

The witches in the play seemed to startle the King, and more than ever convince him that these inhabitants of earth and air were all of a reality, and should be destroyed wherever found, believing that they held the destiny of man in the caldron of their incantations.
— from Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. (John Alexander) Joyce

His friends appeared to consider his flippancy and self-adulation as a mask that effectually concealed his real talents.
— from The Fate of a Crown by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

A maid too easily Conceits herself to be Those things Her lover sings; p. 60 And being straitly wooed, Believes herself the Good
— from New Poems by Francis Thompson

[Pg 58] CHAPTER THREE THE SPIRIT OF PAN "A maid too easily Conceits herself to be Those things Her lover sings; And being straitly wooed, Believes herself the Good
— from Lady Lilith by Stephen McKenna

He had a cold bath, and more than ever clearly he thought of the brown water of the burn foaming into white and creamy flecks over the rocks.
— from Old Mole Being the Surprising Adventures in England of Herbert Jocelyn Beenham, M.A., Sometime Sixth-Form Master at Thrigsby Grammar School in the County of Lancaster by Gilbert Cannan

The urge for this youthful quest was accompanied by a purity of heart and a modesty that even caused his nurses to smile—yes, we can laugh now when we hear that this boy would only change his underclothing in the dark!
— from The Road to Damascus, a Trilogy by August Strindberg