Indeed John—son himself, in closing his estimate of Pope, seems half regretfully to anticipate Cowper's verdict.
— from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan

There he found marvellously wrought figures of old and young men, women, and children, having eyes of precious stones and faces of gold and silver.”
— from History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12) by A. S. (Angelo Solomon) Rappoport

He called for a bottle of the best; they gave him one not on the carte , and charged him exactly one pound sterling for the bottle.
— from Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat

We owe our readers now some words of explanation respecting the new personage who has been introduced into our history; therefore we must go back somewhat, and allude to certain historical events of painful significance.
— from Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Such a man cannot have enemies!’ ” On Pentecost Sunday, June 8th, 1862, it was known that the Basilica of St. Peter would be open at five o'clock in the morning.
— from Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson

From these gentlemen and ladies I have received many suggestions as the series went forward, and I could name many of them who could have edited or prepared such a series far more completely than I have done.
— from Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends by Edward Everett Hale