A little talk about dervishry The Dervish said something she didn't quite understand about not talking shop on social occasions.
— from Miss Muffet's Christmas Party by Samuel McChord Crothers

If we could leave out the mixed or neutral eyes, which are in a transitional state—blue eyes with some dark pigment obscuring their blueness, and making them quite unclassifiable, as no two pairs of eyes are found alike—then all eyes might be divided into two great natural orders, those with and those without pigment on the outer surface of the membrane.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885 by Various

After a time, however, she quite enjoyed the motion, and was much surprised to see all the children with their feet quite bare, generally driving a fat pig or two; and when she, by chance, looked into the cabins and saw pigs and fowls happily making themselves quite at home, her astonishment knew no bounds, but on asking the other servants, she was told this was quite usual, and nobody thought it even extraordinary.
— from Sarah's First Start in Life by Adelaide M. G. Campbell

He therefore thought that it would be wise to leave the question undetermined, and not to give a casting vote on the occasion.
— from Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters Also, Miseries of Fishing by Richard Penn

Then, having now recovered his customary coolness and self-command, he sat down quietly upon a neighbouring tombstone, and mutely motioned to Maurice, who stood gazing at the corpse, as if petrified by the horrible sight.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, No. 05, May 1891 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Except a few martins; wolves, quiquehatches, foxes, and otters, are the chief furrs to be met with in those parts, and few of the Northern Indians chuse to kill either the wolf or the quiquehatch, under a notion that they are something more than common animals.
— from A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Samuel Hearne

Hutchinson—Early Translation of Amadis de Gaule—Hogarth and Cowper—Latin Translation of Butler's Analogy—"Non quid responderent," &c.—"The Worm in the Bud of Youth," &c.—Queen Brunéhaut—Sculptured Stones in the North of Scotland—Prophecies of Nostradamus—Quaker Expurgated Bible—Salmon Fishery in the Thames—Cromwell Grants of Land in Monaghan—Siege of Londonderry 85 M INOR Q UERIES A NSWERED :—The Twentieth of the Thirty-nine Articles—Exons of the Guard—Curious Monumental Inscription—Meaning of Deal—La Mer des Histoires—"The noiseless Foot of Time" 87 R EPLIES :— Passage in Virgil, by T. Henry, &c.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 92, August 2, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Her manner was excellent, quite ungenirt , and not the least impudent or swaggering, and I was told—indeed, I could hear—that her language was beautiful, a thing much esteemed among Arabs.
— from Letters from Egypt by Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady