I see, however, that it is much more proper in God's house to obey the precept of His Holy Word, and 'fall low on our knees before His footstool.'"
— from Stones of the Temple; Or, Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church by Walter Field

We find in point of form a distinct preference for lyric over other kinds, a fancy for archaic language and schemes of verse, a further fancy for elaborate and ornate language (which does not, however, exclude perfect simplicity when the poet chooses), and above all, a predilection for attempting and a faculty for achieving effects of verbal music by cunning adjustment of vowel and consonant sound which, though it had been anticipated partially, and as it were accidentally in the seventeenth century, and had been after the Romantic revival displayed admirably by Coleridge and Keats, and brought to a high pitch by Tennyson, was even further elaborated and polished by the present school.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury

But, at any rate, there is quite enough to make her a great prize, and an object of admiration and attention to all the little men—not to the old hands, like White and Sumner; they are built up in their own conceit, and wouldn't marry Sam Weller's 'female marchioness,' unless she made love to them first, like one of Knowles's heroines.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

She had her slender fingers locked over one knee and her eyes were downcast.
— from The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde

It was from a Doctor Felix Longstreet of Oldmeadow, Kentucky, United States of America, announcing an inheritance—that is, with conditions.
— from The Golden Road by Frank Waller Allen

[77] The difference between the two processes feels like one of kind, and not like a mere 'more' or 'less' of the same.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

He was welcomed, but in decorous fashion; and all he saw by way of prejudice was the friendly look out of kind eyes that went with the warm pressure of strange hands.
— from The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens

An old term for looking out, or keeping a prying watch; whence the revenue cruisers and the customs officers were called touters.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

Elizabeth had found Louis, on one knee, by the side of the insensible Otteline.
— from The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 2 (of 4) by Jane Porter