Having assisted her into the 'bus with rather effusive gallantry, and noting during his attentions a ravishing ankle in silken hose that makes his fatherly eyes grow red and watery, he remarks with a chuckle to himself as he sees the New York beauty drive off: "If Miss High-Fallutin' should come to Zion in the Far West, oh Saints of Melchisedec!"
— from Miss Dividends: A Novel by Archibald Clavering Gunter

hich I believe to be handed down inviolate from father to son, for many generations, although no doubt, had a copy been taken of them at the end of every fifty years, there must have been some difference, which the repeaters would have insensibly fallen into merely by the change of terms in that period.
— from Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Andrew Lang

"It is so," replied George; "and, no doubt, hearing an alarm, he has commenced operations by firing into the enemy."
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

Encouraged by this, I addressed a few terms of endearment to her, and in the exuberance of my youthful enthusiasm I even confided to her my love for Consuelo, and begged her to be “good” and not disgrace herself and me before my Dulcinea.
— from The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories by Bret Harte

She was a good-looking, pleasant girl, and no doubt had attracted plenty of attention.
— from The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Lang