What has the rabble brought with it?" Rashevitch assumed a mysterious, frightened expression, and went on: "Never has literature and learning been at such low ebb among us as now.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Miss Susan B. Anthony spoke last evening to the largest audience that ever greeted a lecturer in Marshall, and we have had Mrs. Stanton, Theodore Tilton, Mark Twain and Olive Logan.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Thus, over each portion of the architrave two metopes and two triglyphs [3] will be placed; and, in addition, at the corners half a triglyph and besides a space large enough for a half triglyph.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Then he gropes blindly after something less empty and vain.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Not very many went: they had not been at sea long enough to welcome a change on land, and the Oriana only stayed two hours to take on mails and passengers.
— from Captivity by Leonora Eyles

"I see what you would be at," said Lady Emily; "you mean to model yourself upon the behaviour of Mrs. Tooley, who has such a deference for the judgment of her better half, that she consults him even about the tying of her shoes, and would not presume to give her child a few grains of magnesia without this full and unqualified approbation.
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

I made a pun in class once; I've forgotten what it was, but it was a bright and scintillant little effort; and Uncle Sim told me I'd end on the gallows.
— from Left End Edwards by Ralph Henry Barbour

Her soft gray gown and broad lace collar were most becoming, and she looked every inch the gentlewoman that she really was.
— from Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times by Amy Brooks

By this time we had bought our Moorish clothes, in which Lutaif, being a Syrian, looked exactly like one of the figures on the outside of a missionary journal, which assume to represent biblical characters, and really are a libel on the Syrian race.
— from Mogreb-el-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

As near as can be ascertained; see Lanigan, Eccl. Hist.
— from The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): February by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

His interest brought a sum large enough to pay off the mortgage on Lone and to settle all others of his father's outstanding debts.
— from The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth