And he has travelled so much in the island, that he must have seen how you deserve all that is said of you.
— from The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau

Horace Vernet has the name of having produced some signs in his younger days; and there is still at the present time a sign of the White Horse, in one of the villages in the neighbourhood of Paris, which is pointed out as a work of Guéricault.
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten

Matilda Heron's "Camille," in her younger days, approximated to it somewhat, but at present there is nothing that resembles it on the stage.
— from Letters of Peregrine Pickle by George P. (George Putnam) Upton