But this Loss is not all: Providence seems to have equally divided the whole Mass of Mankind into different Sexes, that every Woman may have her Husband, and that both may equally contribute to the Continuance of the Species.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

"The honor of young ladies is not a proper subject for arbitration," I was told.
— from The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann

Now an end of life by natural law is not a proper subject of mourning.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV March, 1903-December, 1903 by Oregon Historical Society

The office building in which they were located is not a pretentious structure, but its tenants were then and still are regarded as desirable.
— from Jane Cable by George Barr McCutcheon

His mantle of romance, however, fell on his son and successor, the second Duke, who was brought up in a Palace nursery, and had for playmates the children of Charles I.; and who, after a career which in its dramatic adventure outstripped fiction, ended his turbulent life, if not, as Pope says, "In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung," at least in extreme poverty and suffering in a Yorkshire inn, at Kirby Moorside.
— from Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Thornton Hall

Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth "lisped" in novelettes, as Pope said he "lisped in numbers."
— from Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison

He turned at once, and going straight to the telegraph office in Regent Street, sent the following telegram to Mrs. Merrick: "If Miss Lisle is not at Portmaris, send her address to Yorke, Regent Street Post Office.
— from Leslie's Loyalty by Charles Garvice

And that long drive, the gradual descent of the hill of Life, lent it new and poignant significance.
— from Brothers: The True History of a Fight Against Odds by Horace Annesley Vachell

But the law is not a profession so easily acquired, nor did Frank's talents lie in that direction.
— from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford by Walter Scott