It begins when they enter the dancing-school, and ends when they go out into the world; but after all, I believe it is the only real romance in life.
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

2176 At the chapter of Ottmarsheim in Alsace, "our week was passed in promenading, in visiting the traces of Roman roads, in laughing a good deal, and even in dancing, for there were many people visiting the abbey, and especially talking over dresses."
— from The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

Above the throne, or rather round it, like the courtiers surrounding the throne of an Eastern monarch, stand the seraphim.
— from The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by James Stalker

But after all, though it shed a reflected glory over his path for a short time, Sir Thomas Frankland’s dinner and all its bewildering accessories was but an affair of a day, and the only real result it left behind was a conviction in the mind of Lauderdale that his young protégé was born to better fortune.
— from A Son of the Soil by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

About the middle of April, Wells Fargo & Company's rider made a fast run between San Pedro and Los Angeles, bringing all the mail matter from the vessels, and covering the 246 more than twenty-seven miles of the old roundabout route in less than an hour.
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark

Cheer dwelt in the place, the atmosphere of comradeship {206} and assured love; and the pulse of it all was the girl who stood, tranquil of regard, rich in life and beautiful with health, princess in her own domain.
— from A Man's Hearth by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram