They would not be charged with a search after the Countess Claudieuse, but after an unknown lady, dressed so and so; and, if they should discover any one who had seen her, and who could identify her, that man would be our first witness.
— from Within an Inch of His Life by Emile Gaboriau

"And uncle Launcelot, did she not fret for him?" "Not so much.
— from The Squire of Sandal-Side: A Pastoral Romance by Amelia E. Barr

Northfolk : Sire —— Mounpynzon, de argent, a un lion de sable, a un pinzon [154] de or en le espandle.
— from The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

"Turn the body over," said Kenton, and, upon Lefargee doing so, they found seven bullet-holes in it.
— from The Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone, Hunter, Soldier, and Pioneer With Sketches of Simon Kenton, Lewis Wetzel, and Other Leaders in the Settlement of the West by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Du hällst den Tod für deinen feind, Du irrst; er ist dein bestest Freund: Er ummt dir alle leibin ab Und legt dich sanft in's stille grab.
— from Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig

Incipient formations in the body politic, cutting across and subverting its old constitution, eat one another up, like different species of animals; and the combat can never cease except some day, perhaps, for lack of combatants.
— from Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies by George Santayana