Above Temptation, in a low Estate, And uncorrupted, ev'n among the Great: A safe Companion, and an easy Friend, Unblam'd thro' Life, lamented in thy End.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

It is seen in all states of life, and in all conditions; it lives everywhere and upon everything; it subsists on nothing; it accommodates itself either to things or to the want of them; it goes over to those who are at war with it, enters into their designs, and, this is wonderful, it, with them, hates even itself; it conspires for its own loss, it works towards its own ruin—in fact, caring only to exist, and providing that it may be , it will be its own enemy!
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

The monument which marks his grave bears the well-known lines composed by Pope: 'Of manners gentle, of Affections mild, In wit a Man, simplicity, a child; With native Humour, temp'ring Virtuous Rage, Formed to delight at once and lash the Age: Above Temptation in a low Estate, And uncorrupted, e'en among the great.
— from Fables and Fabulists: Ancient and Modern by Thomas Newbigging

By this time the rajah of Cananor had drawn together a force of 20,000 men, with which he besieged the Portuguese fort, which Brito determined to defend to the last extremity, and used every possible means to strengthen the place.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit, a muse; simplicity, a child: With native humour tempering virtuous rage, Formed to delight at once and lash the age: Above temptation, in a low estate, And uncorrupted, ev’n among the Great: A safe companion and an easy friend, Unbiased through life, lamented in thy end, These are thy honours!
— from Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope by Samuel Johnson

Well, in cursive handwriting the usual evidences of disguise involve some unnaturalness, such as a reduction of writing speed, and other distortions such as writing very large, with an exaggerated freedom, where parts of letters of various words are run together; such as an exaggerated length of lower extensions and upward extensions which tends to intermingle forms and make it difficult to see the details of them; or writing very small, in almost microscopic size where, again, the width of a pen stroke itself tends to conceal details of handwriting; alterations of slant, such as a person who normally writes a forehand slant or slanting to the right, changing to a vertical or a backhand slant.
— from Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

I should perhaps qualify this statement by deducting the hours of darkness; yet this is really a fortunate enhancement of the traveler's enjoyment; it seems providential that there is one part of the way just long enough and uninteresting enough to permit one to go to sleep without the fear of missing anything sublime.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various

This state of mind is nowhere absolutely extinct; it prevails, to a limited extent, among untutored European peasantry, and among the children of the educated classes.
— from Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

Here she saw before her an old man of little education and uncouth exterior, and report said of him that he was ruthless when angry; and yet he was sensible, kind, and honest, and inflexible in his clear judgment of right and wrong—a man who was upright in all his actions and truthful in every word he spoke.
— from A Russian Gentleman by S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich) Aksakov

There were loving exclamations and unbounded enthusiasm when Paul made up his mind to go that little distance, with all the swaying of a tight-rope walker who feels uncertain of his legs.
— from The Joy of Life [La joie de vivre] by Émile Zola