To this Ladies’ Seminary, then, Richard Swiveller hied, with designs obnoxious to the peace of the fair Sophia, who, arrayed in virgin white, embellished by no ornament but one blushing rose, received him on his arrival, in the midst of very elegant not to say brilliant preparations; such as the embellishment of the room with the little flower-pots which always stood on the window-sill outside, save in windy weather when they blew into the area; the choice attire of the day-scholars who were allowed to grace the festival; the unwonted curls of Miss Jane Wackles who had kept her head during the whole of the preceding day screwed up tight in a yellow play-bill; and the solemn gentility and stately bearing of the old lady and her eldest daughter, which struck Mr Swiveller as being uncommon but made no further impression upon him.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Though a simple, unsophisticated, unsuspecting creature, John Cross was a man of very excellent natural endowments.
— from Charlemont; Or, The Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by William Gilmore Simms

56 During the early wars by the East India Company the troops employed by it comprised men of various European nationalities, besides natives of the United Kingdom.
— from Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843; the Gold Coast of Africa, 1847-48; the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; the expedition to China, 1860-61; the Siege of Paris, 1870-71; etc. by Gordon, Charles Alexander, Sir

Merchant of Venice, especially noting the scene in court, and the parts relating to Portia e. R.D.C.G. Julius Cæsar, especially noting the speeches of Brutus and Antony, and the quarrel of Brutus and Cassius m. R.D.C.G. Taming of the Shrew e. R.G. Henry the Eighth m. R.D. Henry the Fourth, read for the wit of Falstaff m. R.D. Henry the Fifth, noting especially the wooing m. R.D. Coriolanus, noting especially the grand fire and force and frankness of Coriolanus m. R.D.C.G. Sonnets in Palgrave's Golden Treasury, Nos. 3, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 36, 46 m. R.D.C. 2. Milton.
— from The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature by Frank Parsons