Then, if we look at the matter thus, there may be reason in saying that a man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him, as he is now summoning me.
— from Phaedo by Plato

“To be sure, Lizzy,” said her aunt, “he is not so handsome as Wickham; or, rather, he has not Wickham's countenance, for his features are perfectly good.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

"To be sure, Lizzy," said her aunt, "he is not so handsome as Wickham; or rather he has not Wickham's countenance, for his features are perfectly good.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Still she hesitates, and he is not slow to notice the eloquent pause.
— from Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

With pride as lofty as the towering cloud, I would have stilled these clamouring demons loud, And turned in scorn my sovereign head away Had I not seen—O sight to dim the day!— There in the middle of the troupe obscene The proud and peerless beauty of my Queen!
— from Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry by Charles Baudelaire

Determined that she should have no more trouble with her sister, Joseph took his wife over the sea to a pleasant island, where she had a happier, if not so splendid a home as Maud.
— from Daisy; or, The Fairy Spectacles by C. S. (Caroline Snowden) Guild

Such hair as hers I never saw on anyone before.”
— from A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katharine Green