They will say that, because a man of a naturally excitable disposition says and does wild things, and even eventually commits self-murder after a sudden and heavy disappointment, there is no reason why vague charges should be advanced against a young lady.
— from The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle

That little Mrs. Jimmy Sharpe, daring to criticise it, said there was too much Ollyoola and not enough dance; but everybody who counts simply raves about it.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917 by Various

nd more of a Nero every day.
— from The Schemes of the Kaiser by Juliette Adam

Such explosions take place, in one mine or another, nearly every day; on September 28th, 1844, one killed 96 men in Haswell Colliery, Durham.
— from The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Friedrich Engels

We soon arrived at the boiling-house, which was an extensive brick building with tower-like chimneys, numerous flues, and a high, steep roof, reminding me of a New England distillery.
— from The South-West, by a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham