It was a representative throng, yet not entirely representative.
— from The Willing Horse: A Novel by Ian Hay

I have heard that you never even read the address of a letter to be sent off, or the post-mark of one to be delivered.
— from Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker) Baker

Not less than the effect produced on his loutish, rustic air and deportment, developing his figure, seeming to make him taller, setting free the manly graces that lurked within his awkward frame,–not less was the effect on his mind and moral nature, giving freedom of ideas, simple perception of great thoughts, a free natural chivalry; so that the knight, the Homeric warrior, the hero, seemed to be here, or possible to be here, in the young New England rustic; and all that history has given, and hearts throbbed and sighed and gloried over, of patriotism and heroic feeling and action, might be repeated, perhaps, in the life and death of this familiar friend and playmate of his, whom he had valued not over highly,–Robert Hagburn.
— from Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Yeomanry now en route to you would also have to be diverted to Salonika and we should have to arrange to mount them from Egypt after their arrival.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Ian Hamilton

Then as he broke into vehement demonstrations of delight and gratitude, she added with another laugh which did not seem to ring quite true: “I don’t think you need ever run short of money!”
— from A Valiant Ignorance; vol. 1 of 3 A Novel in Three Volumes by Mary Angela Dickens

" "Sign, I say," the young nobleman exclaimed, rapping the table peremptorily.
— from The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1 by William Harrison Ainsworth

An arrant humbug, he called himself a nerve specialist, and with the help of one or [Pg 182] two yellow newspapers ever ready to print any trash so long as it was sensational, had succeeded in getting himself talked about as an authority on nervous diseases.
— from John Marsh's Millions by Arthur Hornblow

The Romans also held it indispensable to visit and study in the schools of Greece, and their young nobility especially resorted to Athens, Rhodes, Alexandria, etc.
— from The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt