June 8th.—Prince Eugène named Viceroy of Italy.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Extravagance Not Vulgarity Ostentation is always vulgar but extravagance is not necessarily vulgar—not by any means.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

He caught us clinging to his anchor chain for a breather during the morning swim, and was treating us to an entirely new vocabulary of invective when suddenly, and with no apparent cause, he changed his mind and invited us aboard.
— from The Cruise of the Dream Ship by Ralph Stock

Kincora was, like all dwelling-places in those times, built almost entirely of wood; and it is hardly to be wondered [Pg 238] at that after having been burned so often by man and by the elements, no vestige of it should remain.
— from Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland Being a Tourist's Guide to Its Most Beautiful Scenery & an Archæologist's Manual for Its Most Interesting Ruins by Thomas O’Neill Russell

We then bent our steps to the water-gully, but, to our mortification, it was quite dried up, and exhibited no vestige of its having contained any for some time.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King