Her dress was modest and simple to a degree, dark and elderly in style; but both her face and appearance gave evidence that she had seen better days.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew; But for the sunset of my brother’s son It rains downright.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

For his part, even allowing the Senator to be guilty, he did not think his continued presence during the few remaining days of the Session would contaminate the Senate to a dreadful degree.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

THE PROPHECIES 692 When I see the blindness and the wretchedness of man, when I regard the whole silent universe, and man without light, left to himself, and, as it were, lost in this corner of the universe, without knowing who has put him there, what he has come to do, what will become of him at death, and incapable of all knowledge, I become terrified, like a man who should be carried in his sleep to a dreadful desert island, and should awake without knowing where he is, and without means of escape.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

In going to any fashionable house in the country, you should take a dinner dress for each evening, with stockings and slippers to match.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Thus the Sanskrit sūtra , “thread,” and dharma , “duty,” become sutta and dhamma respectively, while
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

AND as the king lay in his cabin in the ship, he fell in a slumbering and dreamed a marvellous dream: him seemed that a dreadful dragon did drown much of his people, and he came flying out of the west, and his head was enamelled with azure, and his shoulders shone as gold, his belly like mails of a marvellous hue, his tail full of tatters, his feet full of fine sable, and his claws like fine gold; and an hideous flame of fire flew out of his mouth, like as the land and water had flamed all of fire.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Ulrika followed more slowly, taking a different direction to that in which her late companion was seen rapidly disappearing.
— from Thelma by Marie Corelli

Somewhat tattered, And devilish damp, but fine enough by torch-light; And that's enough for your right noble blood Of twenty quarterings upon a hatchment; So let their bearer sleep 'neath something like one Now, as he one day will for ever lie.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Well, the Eskimos don't like it, for people who have been there and seen them say they are dreadfully dissatisfied.
— from The Adventures of Jimmy Brown by W. L. (William Livingston) Alden

“About eight days after my arrival at home, I was called from Lottie’s side (where most of my time was being spent) to assist Doctor Dodson in performing a difficult surgical operation on one of his patients.
— from The White Rose of Memphis by William C. (Clark) Falkner

A target is placed and the balls are thrown at it; or several targets at different distances may be aimed at by the players.
— from Entertainments for Home, Church and School by Frederica Seeger

In preparing the tree for the small machine the ball is made round, and slightly smaller than the width of the machine, a trench being cut round the tree to a depth of 3 feet or so, the actual depth depending on the roots, but the soil should be removed a foot lower than the lowest roots.
— from Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by E. T. (Ernest Thomas) Cook