Did he ask thee for espousal?" Now Mistress Penwick faltered and flushed, for she dare not tell him who her suitor was and thought if she told him well what was said, he would not press her for name, and 'twas meet she should tell him truthfully.
— from Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne

Unknowingly she had submitted herself to a competitive examination in which useless knowledge was not considered, and in which those who possessed pretty faces and fine figures scored the most marks.
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Affectionate meeting of Coralia and Nautila—Various propositions for a "Fast" Fairy Spree, interrupted by the unexpected appearance of— Britannia enthroned on one of her "wooden walls."
— from Ellen Terry and Her Sisters by T. Edgar (Thomas Edgar) Pemberton

He also foretold graphically the misery that would ensue—and that actually did ensue—when the pressure from a foreign foe should cease, and the states should be resolved into a disorderly league of petty, squabbling communities.
— from Gouverneur Morris by Theodore Roosevelt

He had ridden close and paused for a few friendly sentences with the quartette, careful to give Honey the attention she plainly expected.
— from Cow-Country by B. M. Bower

A brief pause followed and Father Fourcade seemed to become yet taller, his handsome face beaming with fervour, amidst his long, streaming, royal beard.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2 by Émile Zola

Of the Cataphracti, a new genus called Petalopteryx has been established by Pictet for a fish from Sach el Aalma.
— from The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Habeeb Risk Allah