And we forewarn all its readers, even devout Catholics accustomed to reading the lives of saints, that it requires a robust faith to avoid being scandalized or frightened by this one.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

There is not only a great sameness in his own proceedings, but he makes everybody else dull—I [234] mean in the country, where one frets at its raining every day and all day.
— from Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters by Horace Walpole

A greater number were disguised in the ungraceful domino, while not a few appeared in regular evening dress.
— from The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid

But though he uses homely New England words like “chore,” he does not, so far as I remember, essay dialect except in “Skipper Ireson’s Ride”; and that is Irish if it is anything.
— from The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

There is not only a great sameness in his own proceedings, but he makes every body else dull-I mean in the country, where one frets at its raining every day and all day.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole