"Rather a long walk for a solitary young lady." Vixen appeared unconscious that anyone had spoken.
— from Vixen, Volume II. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Three years passed since your last visit and you and Madam had not least changed, like the peerless Fuji towering high above the clouds I wished I had power to show you the appreciation and gratitude I always indebted to you, but it was vain effort.
— from The Spell of Japan by Isabel Anderson

79 “I was told before I came to London that the gentlemen of the great metropolis were very fond of paying silly young ladies vain and empty compliments,” said Perdita, looking with good-humoured archness at her companion, while her eyes beamed with wickedness and her bosom heaved visibly.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Solicitous young lady very anxious to have me give her twenty-five cents to tell me how much I weighed; paid her the money, and she told me within fifty-one pounds and a half.
— from Doesticks: What He Says by Q. K. Philander Doesticks

[401] In the same year “La Vierge au Panier” of Correggio was purchased from Mr. Nieuwenhuy, a picture-dealer, for £3800.
— from Haunted London by Walter Thornbury

It's been here since your last visit, and—" "That's been two months ago.
— from The Man in Lonely Land by Kate Langley Bosher

Let’s go and see your little vixen and annoy her by showing that she hasn’t hurt us in the least.”
— from Young Earnest: The Romance of a Bad Start in Life by Gilbert Cannan

The steam arose from his soaked garments, so that the stout yeoman looked vaporous and spectre-like.
— from The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne