| 1. | Choosing the latter alternative, I began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and to take up my quarters in some less pretentious and less expensive domicile. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | I accompanied Sola and Dejah Thoris in a search for new quarters, which we found in a building nearer the audience chamber and of far more pretentious architecture than our former habitation. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |