Along this week I saw some such procession, more or less in numbers, every day, as they were brought up by the boat.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

I've heard father tell how you could speak better'n any minister or lawyer in New England.
— from The House With Sixty Closets: A Christmas Story for Young Folks and Old Children by Frank Samuel Child

But although a man of letters, like the other eminent men of letters in New England, he had no trace of the Bohemian.
— from Literary and Social Essays by George William Curtis

This is not to be found in the fact that after all a man must eat or die; this we more than suspected before the Doctor’s experiment; neither has he settled how long a man may do without food; but he has shown conclusively that starvation, as a mode of living, is not economical, and that a life thus sustained is not worth anything.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 2, February, 1881 by Various

His reason for this manner of life is not exactly known, but he seems to acknowledge in some degree, that a disappointment in love has been the cause.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Nevertheless, her diversions do not satisfy me, and gallantly to make the most of life is not enough.
— from Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell

The hero, who is generally a king, and already the husband of a wife or wives (for a wife or two more or less is no encumbrance in Indian plays), is suddenly smitten with the charms of a lovely woman, sometimes a nymph, or, as in the case of [S']akoontalá, the daughter of a nymph by a mortal father.
— from Sakoontala; Or, The Lost Ring: An Indian Drama by Kalidasa

A large proportion of the most important functionaries here are deeply in debt, and accordingly, the mode of living is now exceedingly quiet and modest.
— from Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1 by George Otto Trevelyan