But in reality Petka ate very little indeed, not because he did not care for his food, but because he could scarcely find time for it.
— from The Little Angel, and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev

[175] It is evident from the nature of many of the articles in the above list, that this "trousseau" was not merely a bride's fitting out purchased for the occasion, but was a collection of all the Lady Bona's chattel property, and represented, as was then usually the case with all wealthy persons, a very large, if not the principal part, of her worldly goods.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

The shapes most frequently employed by Athenian potters are very limited in number—as, for instance, when compared with the Corinthian and other earlier fabrics.
— from History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2) by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters