For the first two weeks their time was chiefly employed in the indulgence of this unfashionable and vulgar propensity, which, if it had no other tendency, served greatly to draw the thoughts of both the young women from the recollections of the last few months. "Precaution" by James Fenimore Cooper

Rather, we had always felt ashamed of the inelegant, unfashionable furniture of his reception- rooms, especially when he had the magistrate, or any other European, as his guest. "The Home and the World" by Rabindranath Tagore