In another, a mock dignity, which supplies the juveniles with a standing theme of ridicule.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

He was a dreadful old man to look at, in a filthy flannel waistcoat, and smelling terribly of rum.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

This interchange of civilities was entirely formal, and stood in the place of the Englishman’s opening remarks on the weather, to which a Malagasy would as soon think of referring, in this connection, as he would to the hatching of crocodiles’ eggs.
— from The Fugitives: The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

A policeman would as soon think of reconnoitring these secluded streets as of walking into a house in Park Lane or Berkeley Square, to which, in fact, this population in a great measure belongs.
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

In August, 1915, there was a slight touch of rheumatism.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

We refrain from giving a fuller account of these suggestive essays, only because we are sure that our readers will find it worth their while to peruse the book for themselves; and we sincerely hope that the forthcoming parts of the ‘International Scientific Series’ will be as interesting.”— Athenæum.
— from Animal Parasites and Messmates by P. J. van (Pierre Joseph) Beneden

But Lady Frances Ellingham’s hair, though dark, was several shades less jetty than that of her mother; and her complexion was delicately clear, with a slight tinge of rich carnation appearing beneath the dazzling purity of the skin.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

The fundamental fault of Liberalism, the cause of its failure, is simply that it goes to work without a sound theory of right, or rather perhaps without any clear theory at all, and merely aims at letting every one do as he likes, with [Pg 188] the understanding that the State can always be called in to correct accidents and excesses.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

Vitelline -us : yellow, with a slight tinge of red, like yolk of an egg.
— from Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John Bernhard Smith

M. Rougegorge's assertion that Lamartine was a slave to opium rests upon a humorous misinterpretation of Mme.
— from Shandygaff A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader by Christopher Morley

The caps were very viscid, yellow with a slight tinge of red.
— from The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard