Perhaps a city is never seen to such advantage as after a considerable sojourn in the provinces, at sea, or in any such other distant or isolated abode, where the dweller is necessarily debarred from the required licenses of civilisation.
— from A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Rolf Boldrewood

"As I was not presented at Court, I never saw the Queen but at the play-house.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

At Glenmore House there was of course assembled, on the present evening, the Tilneys, Leinsengens, Tenderdens, Boileaus, Gascoignes, De Cheres, and the rest of the élite who formed the société choisie of Lady Tilney; and as the latter looked around the apartments, and only saw there those whom in fact she had bidden, she was gratified with this fresh accession of arbitrary power, and considered it no small triumph thus to have set the seal of her supremacy over the yielding Lady Glenmore, who might, under other circumstances, if she had not been an ally, have proved a formidable enemy.
— from The Exclusives (vol. 3 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

That he succeeded in this field in so little and poor a community is no small tribute to his powers.
— from James Watt by Andrew Carnegie

But poets are confined in narrower space, To speak the language of their native place;
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11 by John Dryden

110 But poets are confined in narrower space, To speak the language of their native place: The painter widely stretches his command; Thy pencil speaks the tongue of every land.
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden