“He has no notion of the drudgery of the medical profession,” said Janet; “he means to read law, get up social and sanitary questions, and go into parliament.”
— from Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
To see so strange and sad a sight Quidnuncs and gobemouches ran, And swore the dog was rabid quite To bite that Grand Old Man.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 7, 1891 by Various
We had some difficulty in landing the vrow, she being rather stout and short, quite a genteel figure, measuring, as correctly as my eye could judge, about five feet round her waist; rather “off-coloured” complexion.
— from Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in South Africa: Sport and Travel in South Africa by Andrew A. Anderson
Hycy Burke was one of those men who, with smart and showy qualities and great plausibility of manner, was yet altogether without purpose or steadfast principle in the most ordinary affairs of life.
— from The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
He gave Major Saxton a salute, quick and genial.
— from The Crisis — Volume 05 by Winston Churchill
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