He was speaking to Mr. Stapleton in a quiet and assured tone, as though discussing a topic of no greater importance than the weather.
— from The Blue Lights: A Detective Story by Frederic Arnold Kummer

Those which have much, but less absolute, pretension to historical truth are those of Jean Français, Christophe, Dessalines, and the other negro Generals, old Dessalines, Bellair, Raymond, the French Commissaries and Envoys, Bayou, and Moyse.
— from The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau

They knew the dodges all these old niggers get up to, and it was quite clear that the old man had pitched it too strong for sincerity.
— from The White Hecatomb, and Other Stories by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

Perhaps the devotion of the Assyrians to Nin—the tutelary god of their kings and of their capital—who in so many respects resembled Hoa, caused the worship of Hoa to decline and that of Nin gradually to supersede it.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

(page 393) I have very little to tell you since we met but disappointments, and those of no great consequence.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole