He was just starting down when he heard voices coming and peering cautiously down the garden path he saw his father with an uncle of whom he was very fond, and whom he had not seen for some time.
— from Our Little Brazilian Cousin by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

The weaker No. 2, united to a , b , or c , is a rock compared to it: for the last motives have this great and invaluable quality—they are lasting, while No. 1 depends upon time and circumstance; and then will produce only the so-called naturally brave, of whom the Spaniards say, He was brave in his day ; No. 1 reduced to his own resources would perhaps encounter with vermilion cheeks and perfect cheerfulness, danger that would make No. 2
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

"No; I don't know who that young noble in the green velvet cap and plum coloured dress is.
— from The Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty