SAPPHO Had the impulse of thy heart been honest, It had urged no evil supplication; Shame had not abashed thy eyes before me, And thy words had done thee no dishonor.
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho

This to some aspiring newcomers whose equipage had been in a steady process of evolution from the time that a Dayton wagon was a luxury until now every season saw a complete revolution in their stables.
— from Mrs. Darrell by Foxcroft Davis

He had never until now experienced so sudden a fall of temperature.
— from Tempest-Driven: A Romance (Vol. 1 of 3) by Richard Dowling

Let us now examine some statements of Holy Writ which point out clearly the necessity of this ordinance.
— from Cowley's Talks on Doctrine by Matthias F. Cowley

At this date the training of recruits proceeded under no efficient system such as was evolved at a later date.
— from The War History of the 4th Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1914-1919 by F. Clive Grimwade

One felt the influences that had rained upon Nancy ever since she had come into the world, One could not look at her, nor talk with her, without feeling that her mother—like a vine in the blood, as the old proverb says—was breathing, growing, budding, blossoming in her day by day.
— from Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin