The three daughters were all handsome, but particularly the youngest; indeed, she was so very beautiful that in her childhood every one called her the Little Beauty; and being equally lovely when she was grown up, nobody called her by any other name, which made her sisters very jealous of her.
— from Favorite Fairy Tales: The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women by Various

"Halbuber and Augustenburg are acting so that we shall soon have to apply force; this will cause bad blood in Vienna; it is not what I wish, but Austria gives us no choice," he had written a few days before.
— from Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by James Wycliffe Headlam

The boy glanced up, not catching her words, but suspicious: then frowned and looked defiant.
— from Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches by Arthur Quiller-Couch

The three daughters were all handsome, but particularly the youngest; indeed, she was so very beautiful, that in her childhood every one called her the Little Beauty; and being equally lovely when she was grown up, nobody called her by any other name, which made her sisters very jealous of her.
— from The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Against the moral terrors of this successful empire of barbarism, though he has given us no consolation here, in another place he has formed other securities,—securities, indeed, which will make even the enormity of the crimes and atrocities of France a benefit to the world.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Where his followers abide in greater numbers, or uncontrolled, as in Giddem and in the countries of the Ittoo and Aroosi Galla, the coffee-tree grows unmolested, no care, however, being taken of it; but its proper home seems to lie far to the west and south, in the kingdoms of Cáffa and Enárea, where a donkey’s load is sold for the twentieth part of a dollar.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir