Society, par excellence ; the world at large; the little clique to which he is bound by early ties; the companionship of friends or relatives; even society tete a tete with one dear sympathizing soul, are pleasant states for a man to be in.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

This grotesque denouement of an undertaking planned and executed in the loftiest frame of religious enthusiasm, shook the very foundation of his faith.
— from The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss

Ladies, tricked out in pink filminess of raiment, ever striving to clutch one more handful of their frou-frou , as it waggishly eluded their grasp, and dawdled along the pavement behind them.
— from The Emily Emmins Papers by Carolyn Wells

But the fickle or restless emperor seems to have tired of the plan, or perhaps he found Pinner too Jewish for his purposes.
— from The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) Raisin

"I would rather work my fingers off," retorted Edith scornfully, "than have a man come and marry me out of charity, finding me as helpless as if I were picked up off the street, and on the street we should soon be, without shelter or friends, if we sold this place."
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

They are making ready for the attack!" CHAPTER XIV CLEGGETT STANDS BY HIS SHIP Cleggett did not fear (or rather, expect, since there was very little that Cleggett feared) an attack until well after nightfall.
— from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis

That conservatism which is a distinguishing trait of the popular forms of religion everywhere, served to keep alive the view that all the acts of man, his moods, the accidents that befell him, were under the control of visible or invisible powers.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

By the time the Lamar village was occupied, however, the vigor of this form of religious expression seems to have been already on the wane.
— from Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia by G. D. Pope

It is a sentimental form of reasoning, eminently satisfactory to many women, and to some male novelists.
— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

The policy of the store did not meet with my approval, and I have stepped out and am waiting for them to come and tender me a better position at an increased salary,” said the boy, as he threw a cigar stub into a barrel of prunes and lit a fresh one. “Resigned, eh?” said the grocery man as he fished out the cigar stub and charged the boy’s father with two pounds of prunes, “didn’t you and the boss agree?”
— from Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck