This edifice, being destroyed in the Saxon wars, was rebuilt by Offa, king of Mercia, and a monastery erected adjoining to it, some remains of which are still visible, and the church is a noble Gothic structure.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

“Angelica,” cried Sir Clement, “is a noble girl; she tries her lover severely, but she rewards him generously.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

I called in a neat grocery store and bought some apples.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

Here the rude, untamable plant has its wildest and most striking appearance, now in the form of a huge mound where several bushes are closely interwoven, and now growing separately like ancient dwarf trees, mixed with brown heath and grey masses of granite.
— from The Land's End: A Naturalist's Impressions In West Cornwall, Illustrated by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Yet its situation is by no means commonplace, its atmosphere not generally smoky, and its fine old palaces and narrow cobbled calles must be allowed to weigh something in the balance against its boulevards and tram-lines and plate-glass.
— from Northern Spain by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram

He rose and attired himself carefully in a new grey satin suit, “too light for the season.”
— from The Motor Routes of France To the Châteaux of Touraine, Biarritz, the Pyrenees, the Riviera, & the Rhone Valley by Gordon Home

[Pg 96] "In any case, I am not going," she informed him.
— from A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss

"She did not come in all night, general," said my landlady, in a troubled voice.
— from Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Harrison Weir

Craft from outside will come in and not get stranded, either; and what's more, some craft of yours that is stronger and better fitted than you know of is going to sail out into the open, test its strength and not get wrecked!
— from Janet of the Dunes by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock