The upper floor is to be divided into four rooms of equal size, each one connected with the others by openings cut through the partitions, about six inches square.
— from Harper's Young People, August 2, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

“And so, Judge Burnham, your two daughters have grown to young ladyhood, isolated from companionship, and from education, and from refinements of every sort, even from their own father, and have been the companions of ignorant hirelings!”
— from Ruth Erskine's Crosses by Pansy

Nor was the Bar, whose magnates have ever figured in the front rank of Edinburgh society, eclipsed by the literary luminaries of the University.
— from Robert Burns by Gabriel Setoun

The British Museum, by the bequest of Mr. Octavius Morgan, possesses an important collection of gilt bronze finger rings of enormous size, each set with a foiled glass or crystal.
— from Jewellery by H. Clifford (Harold Clifford) Smith