But this wisdom is slowly learned by rulers, and is not yet very widely appreciated.
— from Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley

A young criminologist, but recently arrived in New York city, is drawn into a mystery, partly through financial need and partly through his interest in a beautiful woman, who seems at times the simplest child and again a perfect mistress of intrigue.
— from Patroon van Volkenberg A tale of old Manhattan in the year sixteen hundred & ninety-nine by Henry Thew Stephenson

On the other hand, labour is cheaper in this country {199} than in America, and in London there is no rock to be removed as in New York.
— from Tube, Train, Tram, and Car; or, Up-to-date locomotion by Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Beavan

That the Romanesque should be an offshoot of the Latin and Byzantine styles, and be, as Quicherat defines it, 'the style which has ceased to be Roman and is not yet Gothic, though it already has something of the Gothic,' I am ready to admit; and indeed, on examining the capitals, and studying their outline and drawing, we perceive that they are Assyrian or Persian rather than Roman or Byzantine and Gothic; but as to discovering the paternity even of the pointed and flamboyant styles, that is quite another thing.
— from The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans