"Yes; but Miss Morgan is so uninteresting, and not young." "She is interesting to herself, I suppose; and I am not at all sure that everything gets easier as one gets older.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

At A Dinner The host must always see that every gentleman either knows or is presented to the lady he is to "take in" to dinner, and also, if possible, to the one who is to sit at the other side of him.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

For the comfort and pleasure of her loyal subjects the empress graciously expressed her intention of holding a bank at faro of ten thousand roubles.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Elizabeth, unquestionably the greatest sovereign that ever governed England, passed those laws for the support of the poor, which, though in seeming and intention most humane, have produced more evil than all the cruelties of Aero and Maximin.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

All through the summer and autumn a number of most capable young women, who were employed as stenographers, teachers, etc., gave every waking moment outside business hours to the work at headquarters, carrying home with them great packages of leaflets and circulars to be folded and addressed, looking after their own precincts, and rendering services which could not have been paid for in money.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

A few finishing touches to the smoke-house required doing; this Mr. Tietkens and Jimmy went to do, while Gibson and I cut up a tarpaulin to make large water-bags, and with a small lot of new canvas made four pairs of water-bags that would hold seven to eight gallons each.
— from Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 by Ernest Giles

They dig right down to the bed rock and pile on so much stone, concrete and steel that even great earthquakes are often withstood.
— from Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by James Francis Cooke

[127] In this battle, it was said that every Gipsy, except Alexander Kennedy, the brave chief, was severely wounded; and that the ground on which they fought was wet with blood.
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson

As they walked along the shady streets the English gentleman explained to his friend all that Philippe had said.
— from Little Philippe of Belgium by Madeline Brandeis

The grave report concerning Osborne which reached Webb that night urged the Sub to even greater efforts.
— from Under the White Ensign: A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

And so saying, the emperor glided easily back to the circle he had left.
— from The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage

From what is tacitly assumed in the narrative it may be held as demonstrated alternatively that either the king gave every guest the necessary garment, or it was such that every guest, even the poorest, could on the shortest warning easily obtain it for himself.
— from The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot