Thus, for example, no one can accurately define the epithets, chalastricum , halmirhaga , agrium , spuma nitri , aphronitrum , and others, because they do not indicate different kinds, as already said, but accidental properties of the same salt.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

Ignoring Aunt Susan’s courteous attempts to make her feel welcome, she drove straight to the object of her visit and demanded that Elizabeth come home to be married.
— from The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger

[Here the manuscript from which we have painfully transcribed, and frequently, as it were, translated this tale, for the reader's edification, is so indistinct and defaced that, excepting certain “howbeits,” “nathlesses,” “lo ye's!”
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

From the confusion, and dampness the entire cabin had evidently been deluged with water, but this had largely drained away, leaving a mass of wreckage behind, and a foot or two still slushing about the doors of the after staterooms.
— from Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" by Randall Parrish

Here the manuscript, from which we have painfully transcribed, and frequently, as it were, translated, this tale for the reader's edification, is so indistinct and defaced, that, excepting certain howbeits, nathlesses, lo ye's!
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 1 by Walter Scott

If, however, through its fault, the fault of its legislation, the welfare of the community suffers, and peace and happiness are not promoted but hindered, disturbed and destroyed, then every citizen has the moral right to revolt against the State and paralyse its pernicious might; not because it has broken a formal contract with its citizens, but because it has become inimical to the peaceful life of mankind, the purpose of every social community.
— from Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau

"And you," resumed the Emperor, addressing Vortigern, whom, during the account given by Octave, he had been examining with attention and interest, "no doubt also hate inveterately that Charles, the conqueror and devastator?" "The Emperor Charles has white hair; I am only eighteen years old," retorted the young Breton, blushing.
— from The Carlovingian Coins; Or, The Daughters of Charlemagne A Tale of the Ninth Century by Eugène Sue