[8] The grand Nakkaras having announced the Rana in court, the mission proceeded through streets which everywhere presented marks of rapine, hailed by the most enthusiastic greetings.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The same with each Principal Medical Officer of a Hospital, and the Matron of that Hospital.
— from Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and War by Florence Nightingale

[527] A book thus stamped with every possible mark of approbation, is surely no bad measure of the age in which it was admired.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

The poem, as will be remembered, begins with the meanest and foulest attack on his wife that ever ribald wrote, and puts it in close neighbourhood with scenes which every pure man or woman must feel to be the [Pg 41] beastly utterances of a man who had lost all sense of decency.
— from Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The poem, as will be remembered, begins with the meanest and foulest attack on his wife that ever ribald wrote, and puts it in close neighbourhood with scenes which every pure man or woman must feel to be the beastly utterances of a man who had lost all sense of decency.
— from Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Harriet Beecher Stowe

She was either profoundly managing, or as innocent and simple as a child.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

And then, in the distance the lofty sails of the brig could be seen glistening, which was rapidly approaching, doubtless with the intention of coming, like the classic Deus ex machina , to unravel at the right time this situation, which every passing moment only tended to render the more complicated.
— from The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard