A COMEDY IN THE MAKING BY LUIGI PIRANDELLO TRANSLATED BY EDWARD STORER CHARACTERS OF THE COMEDY IN THE MAKING: THE FATHER.
— from Three Plays by Luigi Pirandello

Stenopodinæ d. Head armed with a ramous or furcate spine below each side, caudad of the eyes.
— from Handbook of Medical Entomology by O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen

As novelists in magazines, And writers of dramatic scenes, By editorial scissors caught Object to have their tales cut short, So we, gay dogs: for gay we'll be, Henceforth the best of company!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 108, February 16, 1895 by Various

Pompey, who had obtained the great object of his desires, obeyed with alacrity; he was invested with the supreme power of the state by being elected sole Consul on the 25th of February; and, in order to deliver the city from Milo and his myrmidons, he brought forward laws against violence and bribery at elections.
— from A Smaller History of Rome by William Smith

The hall was beautifully draped with the greatest number of flags of all sizes—each one a "regulation," however—and the altar and chancel rail were thickly covered with ropes and sprays of fragrant Western cedars and many flowers, and from either side of the reredos hung from their staffs the beautifully embroidered silken colors of the regiment.
— from Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe

No train is to travel slower than an omnibus, let the excursion be ever so cheap, or the occasion ever so joyful.
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 1 (of 4).—1841-1857 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

Certainly this is a vivid description; Bower and Logan were sitting on a bench ‘at the byre end;’ Sprot, come on the chance of a supper, was peeping and watching; Peter Mason, the angler, at the river side, ‘near the stepping stones,’ had his basket of blenneys on his honest back, his rod or net in his hand; the Laird was calling for the fish, was taking a drink, and, we hope, offering a drink to Mason.
— from James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang

Yet this intellectual body exercises supreme control over the public schools of New York, and proposed this year to spend no less a sum than $3,150,000, or more than double the amount required for the same purpose eight years ago.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various