The petty tyrannies of the thrifty jeweller, his mean outlook on life, and his sordid aims, made of the habits and atmosphere of his class an even more uncongenial world for this brilliant girl to live in.
— from Vigée Le Brun by Haldane MacFall

But this thou sayest, not knowing the mind of our Lady, and how she loved him in her inmost heart.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

All manner of excuses are made, such as being a bad letter-writer, and having so much to attend to, and "he doesn't reply to my or our letters as he should."
— from The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Runciman, Walter Runciman, Baron

That the Danes had, in some way, had word of the march of our levies, and had straightway gathered together, or were yet gathering from their raidings here and there, on the steep hill above Bridgwater, having passed through the town, or such as was left thereof after many burnings.
— from A Thane of Wessex Being a Story of the Great Viking Raids into Somerset by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

"I am afraid the writer has made too much of our little adventures," he said, modestly.
— from The Boy Chums Cruising in Florida Waters or, The Perils and Dangers of the Fishing Fleet by Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo) Ely