Out of doors almost any farmhouse that could be visited might be made by a lecturer an illustrative example of what ought to be avoided.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
In my casual anecdotes of the Hall, I may often he tempted to dwell on circumstances of a trite and ordinary nature, from their appearing to me illustrative of genuine national character.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
And accordingly was for a few illustrative seconds.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan