She had long floating yellow hair, just like Phronsie’s;” and Polly paused long enough to glance lovingly at the small head snuggled up against her knee.
— from The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House by Margaret Sidney

But, in the House of Peers, his utmost vehemence and pathos produced less effect than the moderation, the reasonableness, the luminous order and the serene dignity, which characterized the speeches of Lord Mansfield.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Unfortunately there was no vessel at Port Plata large enough to convey them to St. Thomas's.
— from Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by William O. S. Gilly

The troubles existing at that time pervaded the whole of Europe, and works, both of poetry and painting, produced little emolument to the possessors; consequently the whole of this rich assemblage of works of art, the accumulation of years, fell a sacrifice to the hammer of the auctioneer, producing little more than four thousand nine hundred guilders.
— from Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. by John Burnet

A French poet aptly describes the centralizing influences of his own capital as regards France, when he tells us that ‘at Paris people live , elsewhere they only vegetate .’
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Various

But, in the House of Peers, his utmost vehemence and pathos produced less effect than the moderation, the reasonableness, the luminous order, and the serene dignity, which characterized the speeches of Lord Mansfield.
— from Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron