(I have long desired, most mighty Emperor, to sing the praises of your valour and achievements, to recount your campaigns, and to tell how you suppressed the tyrannies; how your persuasive eloquence drew away one usurper's 9 bodyguard; how you overcame another 10 by force of arms.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

But now that you have become the fashion, and have your pick every day of three invitations to dinner, we are tossed into the corner.
— from The American by Henry James

"Has your principal ever dealt in Western property?" asked Mr. Bristol.
— from Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Following the telegraph came his wife, a trained nurse, "to take care of his white folks," and she is here yet performing every duty with a devotion seldom witnessed.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various

In making this concession, we shall, indeed, be defying fact, and ignoring the improvements, alike in manufacture and agriculture, which had taken place during the hundred years preceding, especially during the last fifty of them, and which were [Pg 197] solely due to a minority of exceptionally able men.
— from A Critical Examination of Socialism by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock