Miss Pembroke asked rather loftily, yet with signs of trouble in her face.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

Birds chirped in the leafless trees, the earth was damp and seemed to stir with the efforts of innumerable roots to produce a richer life, yet the leaves of autumn were still lying on the ground.
— from The Misses Mallett (The Bridge Dividing) by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young

Foreigners, however, were always welcome, and one of the "pets," a romantic looking young Frenchman, who was quite handsome and made a great sensation in fashionable society, avoided the Legation as representing a usurper, and therefore quite unworthy the attention of one like himself, of the "vielle roche."
— from Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore

Others, again, admitted no visitors further than their dressing-room, and thought themselves very scrupulous; but there were others, as there must be at all times, who, with feelings of true modesty and perfect delicacy, hesitated not to use all proper and rational liberty, yet shrunk instinctively from the least coarseness of thought or language, and never yielded to aught that was immodest in custom or demeanour.
— from The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

God preserve him long for a comfort to us:—to whose protection I commit DIESELBE [ Your Electoral Highness, in the third person ], and remain lifelong, "Your Electoral Highness's most obedient Servant and true Son, "FRIEDRICH REX.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle

"The king is as fond of punch as his lamented father, who used to get amicably drunk with Sir Robert every afternoon, after a morning's shooting in the New Park at Richmond last year, when the minister had a temporary lodging on the hill there," said Bolingbroke.
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The messiah had appeared to chief after chief, warning him the time had come to rise and sweep the white invaders from the face of the earth, [178] promising as reward long years of plenty and prosperity, the return of the vanished buffalo, the resurrection of their famous dead, a savage millennium the thought of which was more than enough to array the warriors for battle.
— from To the Front: A Sequel to Cadet Days by Charles King

My patient and respected landlord, Yansan, was making deep obeisances before me, and he held in his hand a roll which I strongly suspected to be my overdue bill.
— from A Chicago Princess by Robert Barr