Besides, society is generally very nice to a young and beautiful woman who has sixty thousand a year of her own, a rich husband, and richer father, and who is going to have a fine mansion on Fifth Avenue, and give many dinner parties and a german or two each season.
— from Miss Dividends: A Novel by Archibald Clavering Gunter

She is getting very nut-crackery, and looks tired and haggard, as indeed she is.
— from The Freaks of Mayfair by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

When Betty heard that Miss Tredgold was coming to stay she immediately gave Verena notice.
— from Girls of the Forest by L. T. Meade

From Commander Granaffei, who has charge of our army’s affairs with the fleet, I learned that during the night one of our silent motor boats often succeeded in getting very near the shore along Caorle.
— from The Flying Spy by Camillo De Carlo

At last Longworth said: 'I have succeeded in getting very nice offices indeed, and I was telling Mr. Wentworth about them.
— from A Woman Intervenes by Robert Barr

This unconcern for their spiritual interests grew very naturally out of their relation to their masters; and were the relation ordained of God, the unconcern would, surely, be both philosophical and sinless.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society