[16] If the Commissioners should justify their thus reporting on things not essential, in the face of the very letter of their instructions, by saying that they understand the term essential to be relative ; essential, not necessarily to the Being , but to the well-being of the Church, and that the repression of the vestments is, in their mind, thus relatively essential; it occurs immediately to ask, why, if they were thus so quickwitted to perceive this sense of relative essentiality on their own side, were they so obtuse in seeing that the same construction should equally be allowed to the witnesses examined, in their use of the word essential on the other side?
— from Remarks upon the First Report of the Royal Commission on Ritual in connection with the integrity of the Book of Common Prayer A lecture delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Brighton Branch of the English Church Union, Nov. 27, 1867 by Mayow Wynell Mayow

"I—I shall leave you, perhaps?" questioned Gertrudis, modestly, as she rose, but Ramon exclaimed: "No, no!
— from The Ne'er-Do-Well by Rex Beach

Not such a bad room, either, not nearly so comfortless as he had thought last night.
— from The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay