I dare say that was very stupid, but it is best to be honest in such matters as well as in some others, and I will own that when our friends took us the walk over the downs which they had promised us, nothing could have gladdened me so much as to enter a secret and solemn wood of immemorial yews by a cart-track growing fainter and fainter as it left the fields, and finally forgetting itself altogether in the sombre depths of shade.
— from London Films by William Dean Howells

Such atrocity, however, did not exasperate Pole unduly, nor cause him to forfeit his character for clemency and moderation.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

Spesa per un nocchiero, che ha condotto Don Giovanni Borgia de Finale a Ferrara.
— from Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius

But it was very rare that he allowed slights of that kind to pass unnoticed, nor could he always restrain his disgust and impatience at the fulsome praise he heard lavished upon Napoleon.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

She thus consented to severe privations, uttering no complaint, hinting no reproach, never disheartened, and so rarely out of humor that she never failed to welcome my return with a smile.
— from Ten Acres Enough A practical experience, showing how a very small farm may be made to keep a very large family by Edmund Morris