He eats very little bread, and calls himself economical because he spares himself the expense of soup and dessert, which circumstance made me remark that an English dinner is like eternity: it has no beginning and no end.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The wholesale and retail departments are entirely distinct in large establishments.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

A13-110 (In 1955, Lee indicated on a school form that he had an “abnormal ear drum in left ear,” A13-111 presumably a reference to the mastoidectomy; but when he entered the Marines 1 year later, physical examination disclosed no physical defects.)
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

In an evil day I left England and came to Spain.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 1 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

Comes Johannes, et fere omnes episcopi, et comites Angliæ eâdem die intraverunt Londonias; et in crastino prædictus Johannes frater regis, et archiepiscopus Rothomagensis, et omnes episcopi, et comites et barones, et cives Londonienses cum illis convenerunt in atrio ecclesiæ S. Pauli....
— from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam