3 AVOC: 'Tis true, He is a man of great estate, now left.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

But it is equally certain that wherever fate had decided that his lot should be cast, his name would be carried down in history, as a man of great endowments, noble character, and one of those whose existence enriches humanity.
— from A Short History of English Music by Ernest Ford

(D'Aubuisson "Traite de Geognosie" tome 2 page 569 mentions, on the authority of M. Marcel de Serres, masses of green earth near Montpellier, which are supposed to be due to the decomposition of olivine.
— from Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin

It had first to meet Raphael smiling friendlily and suggesting anything but the man on guard, every nerve alert.
— from Light-Fingered Gentry by David Graham Phillips

An hour passed and the fire was a mass of glowing embers, now and then relieved by a spasmodic burst of flame, which flickered up and died.
— from The Man from Bar 20: A Story of the Cow Country by Clarence Edward Mulford

And there would have been no disturbing manifestations of genius, either; no troublesome masterpieces or other evidences of a little fire in the blood.
— from Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Men of the temperament of John Thorpe are not blessed with a stoical mind in moments of great excitement, nor are they apt to pause and tranquilly reason out the pros and cons of this most prolific source of human tragedies.
— from An Oregon Girl: A Tale of American Life in the New West by Alfred Ernest Rice

But when we reflect on the consequences of a man "of great experience" needing such lectures and yet left for years undisturbed at a centre of turbulence like Canton, can we greatly wonder at the periodical harvest of atrocities which followed?
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 1 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie

To say, as Mr. Sawyer does, that they "despised" him, is neither warranted by the meaning of [Greek: enepaichthae ], nor is such a rendering accordant with the facts of the story or the connections of the thought.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various