Yet the wearer of this costume may in nothing but appearance resemble the unmentionable class of women she suggests; as a matter of fact she is very likely a perfectly decent young person and really sad at heart, and her clothes and "make up" not different from countless others who pass unnoticed because their colored clothing suggests no mockery of solemnity.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The roof is formed of large solid pieces of timber, running diagonally to a point; the upper compartment of which (springing from perpendicular posts), is ribbed so as to make it have the appearance of a polygonal ellipsis.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827 by Various

The San Martin lay on the outer edge of a long, level reef of coral, against which the surf still hammered, throwing up clouds of white spray.
— from The Nameless Island: A Story of Some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

She made all the haste she could to speed on the maid with the tea, under cover of whom she could go back to the arena of the struggle.
— from It was a Lover and His Lass by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Restraint renders the usual complement of ward servants able to manage many cases.
— from Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and War by Florence Nightingale

In the spinning-mills women and girls are to be found in almost exclusive possession of the throstles; among the mules one man, an adult spinner (with self-actors, he, too, becomes superfluous), and several piecers for tying the threads, usually children or women, sometimes young men of from eighteen to twenty years, here and there an old spinner {141} thrown out of other employment.
— from The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Friedrich Engels

She did full justice to the integrity of her lover, and explained the unforced conditions on which she had consented to live with him.
— from Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness. Volume 2 (of 3) by Charles Brockden Brown

From the beauty [xxix] of the women, who, contrary to usual Chinese observances, were seen standing at the doors of the taverns, they designated this town in the Persian language, Rhosnabad, the city of Beauty.
— from The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume 1 (of 2) by Juan González de Mendoza