I can understand your rising to the surface; but, diving below the surface, does not your submarine contrivance encounter a pressure, and consequently undergo an upward thrust of one atmosphere for every thirty feet of water, just about fifteen pounds per square inch?" "Just so, sir.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

[56] “pig,” “pot” (the price of a pot of ale—thus half-a-crown is a “five ‘pot’ piece”), “snid,” “sprat,” “sow’s baby,” “tanner,” “tester,” “tizzy,”—seventeen vulgar words to one coin.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

I have also to thank Messrs. Macmillan for allowing me to quote from Dr. Potts’ ‘Aids to Latin Prose,’ and from Professor Postgate’s Sermo Latinus .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

But, without any further preamble, pray, sir, give me leave to ask how long you have been acquainted with those ladies who drank tea with us this afternoon.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Y a fe que favor me harás, And you’ll do me a favour, pues podré saber de ti since I’ll find out from you si hay más mundo que el de aquí if there’s another world, or two,
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

The arms of the town of Buckingham are on a field per pale sable and gules.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

It was a folio, pro patria size, in pica, with long primer notes.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

As for Paul Petrovitch, she feared him as much as ever, for he had taken to watching her with a keen, steady eye, and to making his appearance behind her as though his figure, clad in its inevitable English suit, and posed in its usual attitude of hands in trousers pockets, had suddenly sprung from the floor.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

And after the faces of friends and kindred Become as faded photographs, pitifully silent, Sad for the look which means: "We cannot help you."
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

Soon after entering the train at Charing Cross I met a Frenchman (Prof. P. Simond who could speak English fluently, having occupied his time in England in teaching French, and was on his way to Paris to spend his vacation there.
— from The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, Italy, and Egypt, Adapted to the Wants of Young Americans Taking Their First Glimpses at the Old World by George H. Heffner

Thus to reduce the volume to one half, required a pressure of two hundred and fifty pounds per square inch.
— from Cork: Its Origin and Industrial Uses by Gilbert Erwin Stecher

And when a man of his age and in his position thinks about it, any nice presentable girl who comes his way may safely speculate on a formal proposal, provided sufficient opportunities offer themselves or ... are offered.
— from The Gay Adventure: A Romance by Richard Bird

“4. Where such measures have been neglected or were not at first possible, persons suspected of criminal action will be brought at once before an officer.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various

There are four pneumatic pistons, six couplers, and seven composition pedals.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Dearmer

vi. 179:— Itur in antiquam silvam, stabula alta ferarum, Procumbunt piceae, sonat icta securibus ilex, Fraxineaeque trabes cuneis et fissile robur Scinditur, advolvunt ingentis montibus ornos.
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar