They record the periodical advents of those wanderers and “flaming messengers,” and prophesy, in consequence, earthquakes, meteoric showers, the apparition of certain stars, comets, etc.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

And Peter overheard me lamenting our lack of fruit and proclaiming I could eat my way right across the Niagara Peninsula in peach time.
— from The Prairie Mother by Arthur Stringer

Our living is excellent, meat, milk, eggs, and poultry, and fish so cheap, I feel as if it was quite a pity I cannot eat more at once.
— from Miss Eden's Letters by Emily Eden

[72] Annales Vedastini, 882. 'Australes Franci (that is, Eastern, Austrasian, not Southern) congregant exercitum contra Nortmannos, sed statim terga vertunt, ibique Walo, Mettensis episcopus, corruit, Dani vero famosissimum Aquisgrani palatium igne cremant et monasteria atque civitates,
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

Following the first great law of the Army, which says “all property is common except money, and you've only got to ask the next man for that,” The Infant offered tobacco and drink.
— from Soldiers Three - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling

As far as the death of another person is concerned every man of culture will studiously avoid mentioning this possibility in the presence of the person in question.
— from Reflections on War and Death by Sigmund Freud