This law was first framed by a number of these elegant monsters, who, without having any settled or fixed design, merely as a mark of distinction designated themselves “ men of the world ,” and, having heroically dubbed one another in this manner, agreed thenceforth to look down with contempt on the peaceful, moral, and industrious habits of their less ambitious neighbours.
— from Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Thomas Reid

Some opportunity for doing more and better lies but a mile away or a few yards; they see but will not venture upon it.
— from The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth by Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Watson

He successively frequented the schools of Francesco di Maria and of Giac.
— from The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 3 (of 3) by Henry Fuseli

He came to Paris in 1858, and opened business with fifty employees combining the selling of fine dress material and the making of it.
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

This village in the South of Finistère draws men and women from all over Europe, summer after summer.
— from Brittany by Dorothy Menpes

Count Lodovico, as he is always called, has no relationship with the Orsini, but is attached to the service of Francesco de' Medici, and is an old lover of the 105 Duchess Isabella.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

While Oglethorpe remained in this situation, the enemy made several attempts to pierce through the woods, with a view to attack the fort; but met with such opposition from deep morasses, and dark thickets, lined with fierce Indians, and wild Highlanders, that they honestly confessed that the devil himself could not pass through them to Frederica.
— from An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 by Alexander Hewatt