During the second half of the last century the art of violoncello playing had already very extensively spread throughout Germany and had many more noteworthy representatives than in Italy and France.
— from The Violoncello and Its History by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski

While Orlando stood in silence contemplating her beauty he heard a voice exclaim: "Seize the fairy by the forelock, if thou hopest fair success."
— from Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch

While Orlando stood in silence, contemplating her beauty, he heard a voice exclaim, "Seize the fairy by the forelock if thou hopest fair success;" Orlando turning, and advancing in the direction from which the voice came, discovered a prison of crystal in which he beheld the captives of Morgana.
— from The Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo

We have a very explicit statement that this first man, this living soul which Adam was made, was of the earth, earthy, did not bear the image of the heavenly in its freedom from a decaying nature, did not possess that incorruption without which we cannot inherit the kingdom of 43 God, but was wholly mortal and corruptible.
— from The state of the dead and the destiny of the wicked by Uriah Smith

“Then I have a very extraordinary story to tell you.
— from The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins

We had arrived very early, so there was time for conversation.
— from Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin

In this we have a valuable evergreen shrub that is hardy beyond a doubt, and that will thrive in the very poorest classes of soils.
— from Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster

But Minnie had a very excellent, solid trousseau, as might be expected, full of useful clothes; the silks very handsome, and the dinner dresses, though serious, which she thought suitable to a clergyman's wife, quite good enough to go anywhere in .
— from A Country Gentleman and His Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

I have a very extraordinary story to relate.
— from Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist; Or, Dudie Dunne Again in the Field by Old Sleuth

He went down to the harbour, and visited every ship there, in order to offer himself as a cabin boy.
— from Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society. Fourth Edition by Samuel Smiles