I felt inclined to say that I, too, entertained the great ones of the earth at Claridge's, but I reflected that humility was becoming in me, even though a Princess had been kind enough to dine with me.
— from Dinners and Diners: Where and How to Dine in London by Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel) Newnham-Davis

Drusus had a more easy task, and pushed his way up the wide valley of the River Adige [2] to the present site of Bozen.
— from Tyrol and Its People by Clive Holland

If she left it unfulfilled, then he must endure that, as Peter had.
— from The Triflers by Frederick Orin Bartlett

The same word has never but one termination; and then adieu to all that in our declensions distinguishes the gender, and the number of things we would speak: adieu, in the verbs, to all which might explain the active person, how and in what time it acts, if it acts alone or with others: in a word, with the Chinese, the same word is substantive, adjective, verb, singular, plural, masculine, feminine, &c.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

If I had not done so, I think you would have been obliged to go to the hotel, which is not pleasant and much more expensive than a private house.
— from The Girl at Cobhurst by Frank Richard Stockton

Thus Mr. Mason: "In music we are capable of learning, and knowledge of the principles of musical effect can help us to learn, that the balance and proportion and symmetry of the whole is far more essential than any poignancy, however great, in the parts.
— from The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Puffer Howes