And who will consider withal his so many military virtues, his diligence, foresight, patience, discipline, subtlety, magnanimity, resolution, and good fortune, wherein (though we had not had the authority of Hannibal to assure us) he was the first of men, the admirable beauty and symmetry of his person, even to a miracle, his majestic port and awful mien, in a face so young, ruddy, and radiant: “Qualis, ubi Oceani perfusus Lucifer unda, Quem Venus ante alios astrorum diligit ignes, Extulit os sacrum coelo, tenebrasque resolvit;”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Future and conditional tenses.--The demonstrative adjective.--Meanings of present tense.-- Est-ce que .--Use of past tenses.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Hitherto she had instinctively behaved as if she were quite unconscious of Philip's deformity; her own keen sensitiveness and experience under family criticism sufficed to teach her this as well as if she had been directed by the most finished breeding.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

I call it quite unkind of Perkins, and he has been with us ten years too.
— from The Letters of Her Mother to Elizabeth by W. R. H. (William Rutherford Hayes) Trowbridge

“Oh, I can’t understand Mr. Hardingstone,” said she; “I think he’s odd- ish , and quite unlike other people; then he looks through one so.
— from General Bounce; Or, The Lady and the Locusts by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

Until a very recent period the animals composing this family were quite unknown, or perhaps we ought rather to say they were just sufficiently known to make them the objects of superstition.
— from A Natural History for Young People: Our Animal Friends in Their Native Homes including mammals, birds and fishes by Phebe Westcott Humphreys

Final acceptance will depend on your ability to qualify under our physical requirements.
— from Jane, Stewardess of the Air Lines by Ruthe S. Wheeler

He is evidently bound for Aden, casting glances of quiet unconcern on Perim and the coast of Araby the blest.
— from A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne

Such teaching is, in point of fact, quite undeserving of praise for “spirituality,” inasmuch as it in effect recommends benevolence as a way of securing eternal life.
— from The Historical Jesus: A Survey of Positions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

But he's to be kep' quiet until old Pine comes down.”
— from For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

What questionable uses of participles are commonly admitted by grammarians?
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown