Snob , a low, vulgar, or affected person.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Pope's father dies 1717 Works , including some new poems 1719 Settles at Twickenham 1720 Sixth and last volume of the Iliad 1722 Begins translation of Odyssey 1725 Edits Shakespeare
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

“I demand admittance,” said a loud voice outside the room, “in the name of the law!”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

He said nothing, but sat down on the sofa again, looking vaguely out of the opposite window.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

As for his grandfather, it is even possible that he may have felt a certain self-reproach for his temporary role of schoolmaster--seeing that his own career did not offer proof of the worldly advantages of docile obedience--for there still exists somewhere a little volume of critically edited Nursery Rhymes with the boy's name in full written in the President's trembling hand on the fly-leaf.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

SÆGR, a large vessel of any kind.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

SNOB, a low, vulgar, or affected person.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Struck at the news, thy azure mother came, The sea-green sisters waited on the dame: A voice of loud lament through all the main Was heard; and terror seized the Grecian train: Back to their ships the frighted host had fled; But Nestor spoke, they listen'd and obey'd (From old experience Nestor's counsel springs, And long vicissitudes of human things): 'Forbear your flight: fair Thetis from the main To mourn Achilles leads her azure train.'
— from The Odyssey by Homer

By hope of such advantage led, Vibhishaṇ o'er the sea has fled.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

They were Puritans, they belonged to the middle ranks of society; they were men of stern and lofty virtue, of invincible energy, and hard and iron wills; they detested both the civil and religious despotism of their times, and desired, above all worldly consideration, the liberty of worshipping God according to the dictates of their consciences.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

Amid the chaotic desert of broken rocks farther south are little valleys of deep green grass, gay with roses.
— from Their Pilgrimage by Charles Dudley Warner

The French verbs, grey, slender as little verses on the page, the French verbs swam together and sank under the clear-floating images of home-sickness.
— from Mary Olivier: a Life by May Sinclair

She took from the shelves a little volume of Whittier, bound in calf, handling it as tenderly as if it were a priceless possession.
— from Painted Windows by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

It is the echo from the mountains, that makes such a little volume of water cause such a roaring, rushing sound.
— from Newfoundland to Cochin China By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

He set a large value on restraint, which, in view of his strength and resolute daring, was perhaps not wholly false.
— from The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon

For, looking into the future, she saw a long vista of range work and quiet living, with merely the minor incidents of ranch life to break the monotony.
— from Frances of the Ranges; Or, The Old Ranchman's Treasure by Amy Bell Marlowe

A second and longer view of the face did much to dispel the illusion.
— from Lords of the World: A story of the fall of Carthage and Corinth by Alfred John Church

She turned her face upward with a half-involuntary movement, and found herself looking at such a limitless vault of tender blueness that her heart gave a quick throb, seemed to spring up to it, and carry her with it.
— from Two Little Pilgrims' Progress: A Story of the City Beautiful by Frances Hodgson Burnett

In this Plain you see a large Valley of Salt affording great quantities thereof, and lying near about an Hours distance from the City.
— from Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 3 containing a collection of curious travels, voyages, and natural histories of countries as they have been delivered in to the Royal Society by Royal Society (Great Britain)