Sweet is a legacy, and passing sweet The unexpected death of some old lady Or gentleman of seventy years complete, Who 've made 'us youth' wait too—too long already For an estate, or cash, or country seat, Still breaking, but with stamina so steady That all the Israelites are fit to mob its Next owner for their double-damn'd post-obits.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

What was there astonishing, besides, in the circumstance that the recollection of his crime should sometimes bring before him the vision of the dead girl?
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Just as Juliette had practically burned in effigy almost all the Academicians of her time before she had the opportunity of becoming acquainted with them and finding them charming, so she began by criticising and censuring Louis Philippe and his children with the greatest severity.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

— N. celibacy, singleness, single blessedness; bachelorhood, bachelorship[obs3]; misogamy[obs3], misogyny.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

“You can’t get to Pentland Broads to-night, that is certain,” she said briskly, “but you can start off at daybreak if you are well enough.
— from The Youngest Sister: A Tale of Manitoba by Bessie Marchant

[61] wait too—too long already, For an estate, or cash, or country seat, Still breaking, but with stamina so steady, [49] That all the Israelites are fit to mob its Next owner for their double-damned post-obits.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Very few of them escaped the uncivilizing contamination, and many a youth, fresh from an unfinished course at school, had his book education cut sadly short by bestriding a cayuse and becoming a practical cowboy.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV March, 1903-December, 1903 by Oregon Historical Society

[60] April Third Sunday Cream of Asparagus Breaded Mutton Chops — Sauce Signora Baked Bananas — Sultana Sauce Fried Whole Potatoes Lettuce Hearts Steamed Graham Pudding — Sherry Sauce Café Noir BREADED MUTTON CHOPS Wipe and trim chops, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and dredge with flour.
— from Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners: A Book of Recipes by Elizabeth O. Hiller

Upside down as the car lay, Dan and Billy could see several bad breaks in the mechanism.
— from The Speedwell Boys and Their Racing Auto; Or, A Run for the Golden Cup by Roy Rockwood