I am to assure, that the Author has no portion of that airy happiness to lose, by any injury or unkindness which may be done to his Verse: his reputation is better built in the sentiment of several judicious persons, who know him very well able to give himself a lasting monument, by undertaking any argument of note in the whole circle of learning.
— from Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Henry Vaughan

At the same time, a great deal that is beautiful and refined is being built in this style.
— from Convenient Houses, With Fifty Plans for the Housekeeper by Louis H. (Louis Henry) Gibson

When the spring freshets were on perhaps the stream reached its banks, but in the summer months it was usually subdued as now.
— from Mary Louise in the Country by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

I risked being arrested in Paris at nine in the morning nearly as much as I had risked it by being in the streets after midnight.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. II, 1822 to 1825 by Alexandre Dumas