As far as I know, the girls who have earned money to pay their way through college, at least in part, have accomplished it by tutoring, typewriting or stenography.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Lord Mauleverer, encouraged by this speech, artfully renewed, and succeeded, if not in convincing the squire that the handsome captain was a suspicious character, at least in persuading him that common prudence required that he should find out exactly who the handsome captain was, especially as he was in the habit of dining with the squire thrice a week, and dancing with Lucy every night.
— from Paul Clifford — Volume 04 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"If, a few months after his father's death, Jacques had not found himself hard-up, and obliged to dispose of this chateau, to raise the money for his expedition to the South Pole; and if papa and I had not wanted an historic chateau; and lastly, if papa had not suffered from rheumatism, I should not be calling myself in a month from now the Duchess of Charmerace." "Now what on earth has your father's rheumatism got to do with your being Duchess of Charmerace?" cried Jeanne.
— from Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc

Paul's story had not interested him particularly, but now that he was in the neighborhood he resolved to visit the cabin and learn if possible how ghosts amuse themselves by day.
— from The Little Brown Jug at Kildare by Meredith Nicholson

The dusty bare boards, cracked and loose in places, had no pretence to any acquaintance with a scrubbing-brush, and very little with a broom.
— from South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time by Wilson, Sarah Isabella Augusta, Lady

Even with those Polish nobles who were stopping in the city and living in public houses built during the reign of King Sigismund III.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

I also became unintentionally acquainted with a secret, which seriously endangered his chances of obtaining the crown; and lastly, I prevented his carrying off a virtuous maiden from the house of her grandmother, an aged woman, beloved and respected by all the Greeks.
— from An Egyptian Princess — Complete by Georg Ebers

Petrarch complains that it was far more depraved than old Rome, and a popular proverb confirms, at least in part, his opinion.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

That this assertion may not appear too sweeping, it is only enough to instance the example of India, which England has held long enough to convert, at least in part, had she so desired and been moved by the Spirit of God, yet to-day India stands in a worse relation toward Protestantism than when Protestantism in the name of Christianity, but in the person of a British trader, settled down in its midst.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud