And here I must an anecdote relate, But luckily of no great length or weight.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

I believe the pattern is a small lozenge in purple, between lines of narrow gold, and it is to have the crest.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

I believe the pattern is a small lozenge in purple, between lines of narrow gold, and it is to have the crest.”
— from Jane Austen and Her Times by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

At sixteen miles I found a large rocky tarn in a creek-gorge; but little or no grass for the horses—indeed, the whole country at the foot of this range is very bare of that commodity, except at Sladen Water, where it is excellent.
— from Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 by Ernest Giles

At the same time I cannot but hint to American critics that the use of a particular preposition in a particular context is largely a matter of convention; that when we learn a new language we have simply to get up by rote the conventions that obtain in this regard, reason being little or no guide to us; and that within the same language the conventions are always changing.
— from America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer

There were three of these bachelor ladies, of nicely graduated ages, who held a neighbouring farm-house in a united and more or less military occupation.
— from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad

They were young grade short-horns of Eastern origin, less wild than the long-horn Texas steers, but liable, on new ground, to stray off through some of the innumerable coulees stretching back from the river, and be lost in the open prairie.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

But his brilliant young associate, the Rev. Hugh Black, leaves one no ground for complaint as to the quality of the preaching in Edinburgh in the summer.
— from A Year in Europe by Walter W. (Walter William) Moore

“There will be lots of nice girls going your way to-night after the meeting.
— from In the Midst of Alarms by Robert Barr

He brought little or no gold, but reported that he had heard of a certain chief, named Mayrra, marvellously rich, who lived three days' journey up the river; and with these welcome tidings Ottigny went back to Fort Caroline.
— from France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman

One iron hand will be laid on North Germany, and the other constantly raised to menace South Germany.
— from For Sceptre and Crown: A Romance of the Present Time. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Gregor Samarow