From Medmenham to sweet Hambledon Lock the river is full of peaceful beauty, but, after it passes Greenlands, the rather uninteresting looking river residence of my newsagent—a quiet unassuming old gentleman, who may often be met with about these regions, during the summer months, sculling himself along in easy vigorous style, or chatting genially to some old lock-keeper, as he passes through—until well the other side of Henley, it is somewhat bare and dull.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

[Pg 9] were, however, quite upon our guard, and carried along with us, besides the water-casks, our arms, crossbows, and muskets.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

[Pg 136] agreeable to a late hour, or that we leave with a greater quantity of wine of a good quality under our girdle.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

The young widow was quite unconscious of Griggs's look and was very busy with her thoughts, for she was a little afraid that she had made trouble.
— from The Diva's Ruby by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

In the poem entitled "After Death" we have an example of this Anglo-Saxon feeling combined with the plain strength of a later form of language, chiefly Middle English, with here and there a very quaint use of grammar.
— from Pre-Raphaelite and other Poets by Lafcadio Hearn

He slid forward quite unconscious, over Gerald, and Gerald did not notice.
— from Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

comfort or convenience, making short curves where curves are quite unnecessary, or going straight over some mountain spur or peak, when the ascent might have been rendered less difficult by easy curves.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

Why had she mentioned Wyverston, she asked herself; why trench quite unnecessarily on ground where she could not be open and communicative with her friend, as she loved to be?
— from Philippa by Mrs. Molesworth

I only ask that to-night you will keep the matter quiet until our guests have departed.
— from The Squaw Man: A Novel by Julie Opp

Every day I prided myself [Pg 191] on my quick understanding of girls, also of the way to rear them.
— from The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan by Frances Little

But at length, to their mortal astonishment, they beheld the stripling coming swaggering up from the high street of the city behind them, putting a number of new and ridiculous airs in practice, and quite unlike one going to be delivered up to enemies to be thrown into a dungeon, or perhaps hanged like a dog in a day or two.
— from The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 1 (of 3) by James Hogg