In selling a single hat, a purchaser examines closely, and if there is any defect, condemns it.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

Bishops carried her body to its tomb, and for seven days sacred hymns and psalms echoed ceaselessly in the church of the Holy Grotto at Bethlehem, where the funeral service was performed in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

She is very lovely; even in her terror she looked beautiful, and she has a peculiar, elusive charm.
— from This House to Let by William Le Queux

There are some humorous and perhaps even comic passages in "The Intellectual Life"; these passages are unconsciously humorous or comic, as Mr. Philip Gilbert Hamerton seems to have no sense of humour.
— from Confessions of a Book-Lover by Maurice Francis Egan

A woman imagines that she has a peculiar, exceptional constitution, whose ailments are different from other people's and which cannot stand ordinary medicine.
— from Note-Book of Anton Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Anna Waring said that she had a dear aunt who sent her a pair every Christmas and every birthday, and she has ten pair now, and never hopes to catch [147] up.
— from Hildegarde's Harvest by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

She had a pale even color, a straight delicate nose and sensitive lips.
— from The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer

Besides, it is hard to see how any proper end could be devised for a paper of this nature, reciting a few incidents, sad and gay, from the records of a half-forgotten childhood, unless by putting the child to death; for which dénouement, unhappily, there was no solid historical foundation.
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey