As July and August are the months in which most of them pair, August for choice, côtelette de chevreuil is best avoided until after the stalking season.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

‘And where is your part?’ ‘My part is in another land; my fortune is linked with America—that is, if I care to have a fortune.’ ‘Come, come, Donogan,’ cried she, calling him inadvertently by his name, ‘men like you do not give up the battle of life so easily.
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

The “Apostolical Constitutions” (a fourth century composition) distinctly contemplate the existence of illiterate bishops as a very possible phenomenon.
— from The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram

"Be it therefore enacted, that if any person or persons, of any degree or quality whatsoever, shall by any fraud, cousenage, circumvention, deceit, &c. in playing at Cards, Dice, Tables, Tennis, Bowls, Kittles, Shovel-board, or in or by Cock-fightings, Horse-races, Dog-matches, or Foot-races &c. or by betting on the sides or hands of such as play, win, obtain, or acquire any sum or sums of money or any other valuable thing; that then every person so offending shall ipso facto forfeit treble the sum or value of money, or other thing, so won, gained, or acquired.
— from Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards by William Andrew Chatto