The nymphs that followed Love bore their names written on white parchment in large letters on their backs.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Dear Parents —I left Lisbon on the 7th of October.
— from A British Rifle Man The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo by George Simmons

Vainly attempt to think of any simple plant, or flower, or wholesome weed that, set in this fetid bed, could have its natural growth or put its little leaves off to the sun as God designed it.
— from Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

He had but to ask the first Frenchman he met and he would tell him to go up the Corso, turn to the right, by the end of the Rue de l'Hôpital, and there was the name of the General painted in large letters over the door of his quarters.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

exclaimed the youthful queen, and hastily writing 'Pardoned' in large letters on the fatal page, she sent it across the table with a hand trembling with eagerness and beautiful emotion.
— from Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson

Mixing up a pot of vermilion, he painted in large letters on the face of the rock where they had passed the night:— "Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three."
— from Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Agnes C. Laut

M. Trémaux' book may be summed up entirely in the statement of the great law of the improvement of beings which is printed in large letters on the front page of the first part: "The improvement of creatures is or becomes proportionate to the degree of elaboration of the soil on which they live!
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

The old people had had the odd idea of calling it "Daybreak," and the name was painted in large letters on the east gable.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 by Martin Andersen Nexø

It would be like her—intrepid as she was—defiantly to write "Pelle" in large letters on the door- plate.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 by Martin Andersen Nexø