It must have been at a later period, when the national genius became more subdued, and every Spaniard dreaded to find under his own roof a spy or an informer, that another proverb arose, Con el rey y la inquisicion, chiton!
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

As we came from Mitylene into the open sea, the view was surpassingly lovely, islands green and poetic, a coast ever retreating and advancing, as if in coquetry with the blue waves, purple robing the hills,—a voyage for poets and lotus-eaters.
— from In the Levant Twenty Fifth Impression by Charles Dudley Warner

IMG The priests made a great boast of their learning and philosophy, and could each repeat by heart those books of Thot which belonged to his own order.
— from History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12) by A. S. (Angelo Solomon) Rappoport

These, I have been given to understand, are procurable at certain established rates, payment being made eit2er in money or advertising patronage by the publisher, or by an adequate outlay of servility on the part of the author.
— from Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

Flavie, brought up in opulence, began her married life in a charming apartment, furnished by her mother’s upholsterer, where the young wife, who was full of taste for art and for artists, and possessed a certain elegance, ruled, a queen.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac