But she is quite lost, quite undone; and then has assumed a carriage upon it, that all those creatures are distinguished by!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

“O gear will buy me rigs o' land, And gear will buy me sheep and kye; But the tender heart o' leesome love, The gowd and siller canna buy; We may be poor—Robie and I— Light is the burden love lays on; Content and love brings peace and joy— What mair hae Queens upon a throne?” H2 anchor Bessy And Her Spinnin' Wheel O Leeze me on my spinnin' wheel, And leeze me on my rock and reel; Frae tap to tae that cleeds me bien, And haps me biel and warm at e'en; I'll set me down and sing and spin, While laigh descends the simmer sun, Blest wi' content, and milk and meal, O leeze me on my spinnin' wheel.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

The idea of being led up to the Doctor with Arthur for bagging fowls quite unmans and takes half the run out of him.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Fan did not quite understand all this; her mistress was always mocking at something, she knew; she only asked if it was really in the country where she would live.
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

It was very quiet up at the house the next afternoon.
— from Five Little Bush Girls by E. Lee (Emily Lee) Ryan

They were all out of date, to be sure, and some slightly rusty, but still quite usable after they had been cleaned up.
— from The Boy Scout Fire Fighters by Irving Crump

And perhaps it was pleasantest of all to feel strengthened in the assurance that he still was a charming fellow, with capacities for winning admiration and making a brilliant figure, quite uninjured (although they had been temporarily eclipsed) by all the cloud of troubles which had gathered around him.
— from A Charming Fellow, Volume III by Frances Eleanor Trollope

I have also printed in the Appendix a detailed statement of the precise circumstances under which Shakespeare’s sonnets were published by Thomas Thorpe in 1609 (Section V.), and a review of the facts that seem to me to confute the popular theory that Shakespeare was a friend and protégé of William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, who has been put forward quite unwarrantably as the hero of the sonnets (Sections VI., VII., VIII.)
— from A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir

He was still quite uncertain as to his future, and he would not discuss it with this irresponsible, who had undertaken to be his worldly mentor.
— from Aladdin of London; Or, Lodestar by Max Pemberton

Chip stooped and turned the sleeping one over on his back; the sleeper opened his eyes and blinked questioningly up at the huddle of bent faces.
— from The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories by B. M. Bower

What was worse, Cleo herself seemed to be perfectly unaware of anything exceptionable, for she made not the least protest; from which Morgan gathered that the sort of thing must be quite usual and that, had he not shunned the rehearsals so persistently, he would have known it before.
— from Cleo The Magnificent; Or, The Muse of the Real: A Novel by Louis Zangwill

Their mistakes have made me quite unhappy and there has always been CONTENTION between my Ministers and myself.
— from Rescuing the Czar Two authentic diaries arranged and translated by James P. Smythe