Or, a non-significant sound, which marks the beginning, end, or division of a sentence; such, however, that it cannot correctly stand by itself at the beginning of a sentence, as {mu epsilon nu}, {eta tau omicron iota}, {delta epsilon}.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Fear!—that legacy of the Wild which no animal may escape nor exchange for pottage.
— from White Fang by Jack London

The success of the Liverpool and Manchester experiment naturally excited great interest.
— from Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles

He replied that if the territory to be acquired were tenfold more valuable, and covered a foot thick with pure gold, on the single condition that slavery was to be excluded therefrom, the proposition would not be for a moment entertained, nor even communicated to the President.(63)
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer