The sonnets, with the letter, were presumably sent some time after Letters V. et seq.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The noise was, at length, very effectually silenced by Jupiter, who, getting out of the hole with a dogged air of deliberation, tied the brute’s mouth up with one of his suspenders, and then returned, with a grave chuckle, to his task.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

When he was fifteen he was strong and well-built, and liked vigorous exercise, so that he was a noted wrestler and skilful at shuttlecock.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

The Sermon Fray Damaso began slowly in a low voice: “‘ Et spiritum bonum dedisti, qui doceret eos, et manna tuum non prohibuisti ab ore eorum, et aquam dedisti eis in siti .
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

After the pause of a moment, she went on, and, as she entered the vaults, saw between the arches, at some distance, the men lay down the body near the edge of an open grave, where stood another of Montoni's men and a priest, whom she did not observe, till he began the burial service; then, lifting her eyes from the ground, she saw the venerable figure of the friar, and heard him in a low voice, equally solemn and affecting, perform the service for the dead.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The first eggs are laid very early, sometimes by the second week in April.
— from The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish

A planet is a large body of matter entirely surrounded by a void, as distinguished from a clergyman, who is a large void entirely surrounded by matter.
— from The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Elbert Hubbard

Very pleasing drawings may thus be etched upon glass; and they may be rendered more effective by dusting the outline with a little vermilion. EMBLEMATIC STONES.
— from Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

One day each 144 month a librarian visits each school in the city to take books to the pupils.
— from Near the Top of the World: Stories of Norway, Sweden & Denmark by Nelle E. Moore

"Very good; now we are on the track; and he has a friend, another little villain, even smaller than you, whose name is Bahuchet?"
— from The Bath Keepers; Or, Paris in Those Days, v.2 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume VIII) by Paul de Kock

Post resides annos longo velut excita somno Romanis fruitur nostra Thalia choris.
— from Claudian, volume 2 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

"Thar we wuz, in a little valley entirely surrounded by Injuns thirstin' fer our gore.
— from Ted Strong's Motor Car Or, Fast and Furious by Edward C. Taylor