I liked to learn of her: I saw the part of instructress pleased and suited her; that of scholar pleased and suited me no less.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Thus S. Bridget supplemented the achievements of S. Patrick, and S. Hilda those of S. Aidan.
— from Virgin Saints and Martyrs by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Lamenting to the last, she mounted her palfrey, and set her train of servants in motion; whilst Joan stood upon the top step of the flight to the great door, and waved her hand to her mother till the cortege disappeared down the drive.
— from In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince by Evelyn Everett-Green

Through his evil temper, pride, and superstition, his town of several hundred people was reduced to eighty or ninety souls.”
— from The Truth About the Congo: The Chicago Tribune Articles by Frederick Starr

Then the words just spoken to him at the door came back to puzzle and set him thinking of several other encounters—or fancied encounters with people whom he felt that he had never seen before.
— from A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn