And yet, why say I, I am half ashamed?—Is it not a glory to love her whom every one who sees her either loves, or reveres, or both?
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

when suddenly his eye lighted on Roland Graeme—“By my faith, Douglas,” said he, turning to his friend, “here have been three at counsel!”
— from The Abbot by Walter Scott

She had expected lack of refinement and boldness, in the woman who was said to have attracted so many men, but even the most bitter prejudice could have detected no trace of it.
— from Cleopatra — Complete by Georg Ebers

In the old days she would have shrank from him as being unpatrician; now, his fleet speech, his entire lack of repose, his careless, unmodish, though scrupulously clean dress, all had for her an appealing and individual charm.
— from The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

Les généraux Kleber et Desaix, qui entrèrent en négociation avec lui après le départ de Bonaparte, ont apprécié sa droiture et son humanité, et lui ont rendu justice.
— from Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars Second Edition by James Burnes