I know, had a young ruddy-faced bonne opened the door to admit me, I should have thought such a one little in harmony with her dwelling; but, when I found myself confronted by a very old woman, wearing a very antique peasant costume, a cap alike hideous and costly, with long flaps of native lace, a petticoat and jacket of cloth, and sabots more like little boats than shoes, it seemed all right, and soothingly in character.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

And yet other ears and eyes were there and greedily taking in all that passed, and moreover they were the ears and eyes of no less a person than Mr Daniel Quilp, who, having entered unseen when the child first placed herself at the old man’s side, refrained—actuated, no doubt, by motives of the purest delicacy—from interrupting the conversation, and stood looking on with his accustomed grin.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

But one circumstance happened which showed the wonderful dexterity of Ned Land, and proved what confidence we might place in him.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

H2 anchor 20 Silver's Embassy URE enough, there were two men just outside the stockade, one of them waving a white cloth, the other, no less a person than Silver himself, standing placidly by.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

I have even been informed that at Paris she discovered a relation of her own, no less a person than her maternal grandmother, who was not by any means a Montmorenci, but a hideous old box-opener at a theatre on the Boulevards.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The innate mobility of the human race, due primarily to the eternal food-quest and increase of numbers, leads a people to spread out over a territory till they reach the barriers which nature has set up, or meet the frontiers of other tribes and nations.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The preparation of the pattern, in most kinds of needlework, is a most important matter and one requiring the greatest care, but in the case of needlemade lace and pillow lace the processes are different.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Thy spousal ornament neglected lies; Arise, prepare the bridal train, arise!
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Leaves of the foregoing plants and shrubs are made up, as has been said, in small sets or combinations of five, seven, or even perhaps of nine leaves a piece.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

But after three hours I could bear such scenes of outrage no longer, and put an end to them.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 by Various

Once he talked in this strain in the presence of no less a person than old Leslie himself, as they were riding from Chester to Newcastle with a Colonel Cochrane.
— from Montrose by Mowbray Morris

Even her husband does not visit her in the daytime, but steals to her couch under cover of the darkness of night like a paramour.
— from Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia by J. Milton (John Milton) Mackie

Beyond it the seven-thousand-foot volcano, Canlaon, on Negros, lifts a purple head.
— from A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary H. (Mary Helen) Fee

It seemed— this voyaging through the sparkling water, under the scintillating heavens, this resolute pushing into the opening splendors of night— like a pleasure trip.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1 by Charles Dudley Warner

The violations of natural law are punished without any reference to the question whether the evil-doer intended the wrong, or whether he sinned in ignorance, or whether this ignorance was involuntary and unavoidable.
— from Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People by Catharine Esther Beecher

It was upon the road between Newmarket and London that Old Mob halted the carriage of no less a personage than Louise de la Kérouaille, the notorious Frenchwoman, favourite of Charles the Second, whom that monarch had created Duchess of Portsmouth.
— from Half-hours with the Highwaymen - Vol 1 Picturesque Biographies and Traditions of the "Knights of the Road" by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

To this it is replied, that his [Pg 16] name was on the roll of the Senate, and accordingly was called by our Secretary; to which I answer,—and to my mind the answer is complete,—The rule of the Senate must be construed always in subordination to the principles of Natural Law and Parliamentary Law, and therefore you are brought again to the question with which I began, Had Mr. Stockton a right to vote?
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 14 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

And even a man called Montano, because without that, I'd never have decided—" "Like Rhazon of Nedrun, like all pioneers, this young man has been cursed by his own people, the very ones who will one day benefit from his daring.
— from The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley