He made frantic efforts to remove the disgusting webs from his garments, his eyes darting everywhere in search of the evil insects.
— from Quill's Window by George Barr McCutcheon

dey grows hansomer ebery day," exclaimed an elderly negress, who had just come in with a basket on her arm.
— from Elsie's Motherhood by Martha Finley

The law of God has eminent domain everywhere, over the private passions of Oliver and Charles, the special interests of Carthage and of Rome, over all customs, all official business, all precedents, all human statutes, all treaties between Judas and Pilate, or England and France, over all the conventional affairs of one man or of mankind.
— from Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Theodore Parker

Whereupon, he had returned to the platform to give his enthusiastically demanded encore, and, to the disappointment of the audience, had sung the most villainous drawing-room ballad he could think of, without an attempt at expression.
— from Derelicts by William John Locke

[Greek: hos enioi dokousin, ekon apethane synidon hoti ouk esoito dynatos kataschein hon hyposchoito .]
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge