He, on the other hand, if not in love, Fell into that no less imperious passion, Self-love—which, when some sort of thing above Ourselves, a singer, dancer, much in fashion, Or duchess, princess, empress, 'deigns to prove' ('T is Pope's phrase) a great longing, though a rash one, For one especial person out of many, Makes us believe ourselves as good as any.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Before dark he came back unsuccessful, and gave his name as Bidwell, the same gentleman who has since been a member of Congress, who is married to Miss Kennedy, of Washington City, and now lives in princely style at Chico, California.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

In this strange land, this uncouth clime, A land unknown to prose or rhyme; Where words ne'er cross't the Muse's heckles, Nor limpit in poetic shackles: A land that Prose did never view it, Except when drunk he stacher't thro' it; Here, ambush'd by the chimla cheek, Hid in an atmosphere of reek, I hear a wheel thrum
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

And Katerina Ivanovna would not let it pass, she stood up for her... and so that’s how it happened.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Now, Lucy is pretty square-cornered mentally, but she comes of a stock on the mother's side somewhat given to dreaming.
— from The World on Wheels, and Other Sketches by Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) Taylor

His theory is that by such acts the balance of good and evil in the world is destroyed, since no longer is propitiatory self-sacrifice and prayer offered to heaven for the sins being committed on earth: “ Il faut s’attendre à ce que le Bon Dieu tombe sur nous ... pour remettre les choses en place, et vous savez comment il procède, dans ces cas là, il vous accable d’infirmités et d’épreuves. ”
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

Composed originally as a song of seed-time, it has now lost its primary significance and is sung by men at their work or by mothers hushing their children in the dark alleys of the city.
— from By-Ways of Bombay by S. M. (Stephen Meredyth) Edwardes

He, on the other hand, if not in love, Fell into that no less imperious passion, Self-love—which, when some sort of thing above Ourselves, a singer, dancer, much in fashion, Or Duchess—Princess—Empress, "deigns to prove" [518] ('T is Pope's phrase) a great longing, though a rash one, For one especial person out of many, Make us believe ourselves as good as any.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

His wife however kept in front of the snake and would not let it pass; she called the banyan tree to witness that the snake should not eat her husband without first killing her; without her husband she would have no one to support her.
— from Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas

A lady now living in Providence states, that one day, after the close of the war, passing General Greene's house in Newport, she saw both him and his wife playing "puss in the corner," with the children.
— from The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 1 by E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet