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

[Pg 58] CHAPTER X. One morning, at break of day, I left Monterey for a tramp among the hills; the natives by this time had become pacifically disposed, and there were no serious apprehensions of getting a hide necklace thrown over one's head, in shape of the unerring lasso, if perchance a Yankee strayed too far from his quarters.
— from Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

It was rocking slowly back and forth in the uncertain light, its pink and blue ribbons fluttering with a ghostly and ill-timed gayety.
— from Virginia of Virginia: A Story by Amélie Rives

Further south with the Makalolo, the upper lip is perforated, and a large metal and bamboo ring, called a pelelé , is worn in the hole.
— from The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. II (1st Edition) by Charles Darwin

There followed the establishment of Old-Age Pensions at an initial expenditure of $40,000,000 a year; the prolonged and ultimately successful struggle to increase the taxation upon landed interests, property, and invested income by means of the much-discussed Budget of 1909; the natural resentment of the Lords, the Conservatives, and many who were neither—as illustrated in the subsequent wiping out of the Liberal majority in England itself; the constitutional [Pg 424] issue which the Liberals so cleverly forced to the front with the House of Lords as their chief antagonists and which relegated Tariff Reform temporarily to the background; the prolonged period in which King Edward took minute and anxious and personal interest in the question.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

Now by my maiden honour yet as pure 352 As the unsullied lily I protest, A world of torments though I should endure, I would not yield to be your house’s guest; 355
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9] by William Shakespeare

there by the unconventional Lavengro, in Platonic association with a strapping Gitano wench named Isopel Berners.
— from The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood