Jussac was, as was then said, a fine blade, and had had much practice; nevertheless it required all his skill to defend himself against an adversary who, active and energetic, departed every instant from received rules, attacking him on all sides at once, and yet parrying like a man who had the greatest respect for his own epidermis.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Our hero shall, with all convenient despatch, be gradually sublimed into those splendid connexions of which you are enamoured; and God forbid, that, in the meantime, the nature of his extraction should turn to his prejudice in a land of freedom like this, where individuals are every day ennobled in consequence of their own qualifications, without the least retrospective regard to the rank or merit of their ancestors.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

But fall'n he is, and now What rests, but that the mortal Sentence pass On his transgression, Death denounc't that day, Which he presumes already vain and void, 50 Because not yet inflicted, as he fear'd, By some immediate stroak; but soon shall find Forbearance no acquittance ere day end.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

La tiamuloj konis nur malgrandan parton de Afriko, de Azio, eĉ de Eŭropo.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

A week later the actors dined at the police captain’s again, and after that came almost every day either to dinner or supper.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The colour is rich and harmonious, and every detail exquisitely finished.
— from Botticelli by Henry Bryan Binns

Many monosyllables, e.g. som, cours, glimps, wher, vers, aw, els, don, ey, ly, so written in 1645, take on in 1673 an e mute, while words like harpe, windes, onely, lose it.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

: "Mulier autem in paradiso est formata De costis viri dormientis est parata Deus autem ipsam super virum honestavit Quoniam Evam in loco voluptatis plasmavit, Non facit eam sicut virum de limo terræ Sed de osse nobilis viri Adæ et de ejus carne.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

They rise early in the morning, and are every day employed till sunset in rubbing two smooth stones together, or, in other terms, in polishing marble."
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson

Into the flames fell dainty caskets of ivory, cedar, and ebony, and as they clashed against the firewood they burst open, spilling treasures within—collars of pearls, clusters of topazes and emeralds, diamond earrings, the whole scale of precious stones, which sparkled for an instant against the half-burnt wood like gleaming salamanders.
— from Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

ITALY: Societa Italiana di Antropologia e di Etnologia, Hon.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Thomas Henry Huxley

All the windings are nearly at equal distances; each bears one row of large roundish pores, enclosed by two rows of smaller pores.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel