Her slightly aquiline nose gives a refined expression to her proud, clean-cut features.
— from Speaking of the Turks by Mufti-zada, K. Ziya, bey

Colored tall bills with little no pitch and dark white dark with rubber splendid select pistons with black powdered cheese and shirts and night gowns and ready very ready sold glass butts.
— from Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein

If a woman be a general dealer, she is mostly to be found at a stall or standing, and not “going a round.”
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

But the young lady had well perceived that this was no common or lazy pig, such as never gets a ripe pear— porco pigro non mangia pere mature —as he had shown by wooing her; and, secondly, because she was poor and ambitious, and daring enough to do anything to become rich and great.
— from Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland

"It doesn't seem right that such a nice girl as Rosa shouldn't have every chance to grow up good and happy.
— from Mary Minds Her Business by George Weston

If general distrust of banking was widely spread, and notes, gold, and rupees were being hoarded in the old–fashioned way on a large scale, the banks would not be able to put their hands on sufficient cash resources of any kind to enable them to pay for the Government’s drafts on a scale adequate to their necessities.
— from Indian Currency and Finance by John Maynard Keynes