It surpasses even her own in rapidity of movement and graceful ease.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

May God never send Russia or me a greater enemy than you.
— from By Right of Sword by Arthur W. Marchmont

Under such circumstances as these, therefore, commanders of small craft like destroyers and submarines are under a grave disadvantage and have to proceed with the utmost caution or run the risk of making a ghastly error.
— from Commander Lawless V.C. Being the Further Adventures of Frank H. Lawless, Until Recently a Lieutenant in His Majesty's Navy by Rolf Bennett

"And as for the lords of state," said Miss Damahoy, "ye suld mind the riding o' the parliament, Mr. Saddletree, in the gude auld time before the Union,—a year's rent o' mony a gude estate gaed for horse-graith and harnessing, forby broidered robes and foot-mantles, that wad hae stude by their lane wi' gold brocade, and that were muckle in my ain line.
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Walter Scott

A year's rent o' mony a gude estate gaed for horse-graith and harnessing, forby broidered robes and foot-mantles that wad hae stude by their lane with gold and brocade, and that were muckle in my ain line.'
— from In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell

Fortunately, this action of the house of representatives offered me a good excuse or pretext at least, to have the treasurer refuse to answer any further questions by the investigating committee, and we accordingly withdrew him from the witness stand.
— from Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family by Charles Clinton Nourse

She must submit to his company on the road, or make a greater effort than it was in her nature to make.
— from All along the River: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

At last she resolved on making a great effort, and on plea of a violent headache (a plea which by this time was literally true) to ask Mrs. Potts if she would allow a servant to bring a coach for her.
— from Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

They built where the land rose into a ridge of moderate and gradual elevation, commanding a long reach of prospect; where a good spring threw out its crystal waters, jetting, in winter and summer
— from Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms