Notwithstanding the high character borne for so many years by our countrymen as a people, and as specially attentive to all religious observances, still there can be no doubt that there has sprung up amongst the inhabitants of our crowded cities, wynds, and closes, a class of persons quite unknown in the old Scottish times.
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

The fireplace was very old and quaint, having a little grate set quite unattached into the open space, leaving room enough for a stool on either side.
— from The Guinea Stamp: A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Annie S. Swan

Many of the unbelieving pagans, full of admiration for a holiness of life and a heroism they could not comprehend, came to his {729} instructions; and even literary Greeks who had gone through the curriculum of the Museum, and were deeply versed in Platonic myths and Pythagorean theories of mortification, came to listen to this fearless young philosopher, in whom they found a learning that could not be gainsaid, combined with a practical contempt for the things of the body that was quite unknown in their own schools.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various