The unmarried lady is presented to the married one, unless the latter is very much the younger.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Now by my maiden honour, yet as pure As the unsullied lily, I protest, A world of torments though I should endure, I would not yield to be your house's guest; So much I hate a breaking cause to be Of heavenly oaths, vowed with integrity.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

When perfect silence was again restored, and after the usual long, impressive pause, one of the two aged chiefs who sat at the side of the patriarch arose, and demanded aloud, in very intelligible English: “Which of my prisoners is La Longue Carabine?”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

When perfect silence was again restored, and after the usual long, impressive pause, one of the two aged chiefs who sat at the side of the patriarch arose, and demanded aloud, in very intelligible English,— "Which of my prisoners is La Longue Carabine?"
— from The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Ravel angrily refused, and was anything but mollified to discover that Wittgenstein was taking “unpardonable liberties” in public performances of the concerto....
— from Serge Prokofieff and His Orchestral Music by Louis Leopold Biancolli

Patriæ fumus igne alieno luculentior is best qualified with this,— Ubi libertas, ibi patria .
— from Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

91 Next instant and she had torn the unfinished letter in pieces.
— from Marjorie Dean at Hamilton Arms by Josephine Chase

DEAR BOY: As I am now no longer in pain about your health, which I trust is perfectly restored; and as, by the various accounts I have had of you, I need not be in pain about your learning, our correspondence may, for the future, turn upon less important points, comparatively; though still very important ones: I mean, the knowledge of the world, decorum, manners, address, and all those (commonly called little) accomplishments, which are absolutely necessary to give greater accomplishments their full, value and lustre.
— from Letters to His Son, 1749 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman by Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of

In this case the under layer is perhaps only two cells deep at the centre and three or four cells deep near the circumference.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

" Further south with the Makalolo, the upper lip is perforated, and a large metal and bamboo ring, called a pelele, is worn in the hole.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

Evidence of this impression, and of the unrivalled loyalty it produced, crowds upon us at every turn.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle