The parallels [A] are most often with the long essay of Montaigne called Apologie de Raymond Sébond —an astonishing piece of writing upon which Shakespeare also probably drew in Hamlet .
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

As we advanced the air became thicker and colder, as drizzling rain set in; but the practised eyes of seamen are content with indications that convey no meaning to an ordinary landsman, and just as the night was closing in almost pitch dark, the rattle of the chain cable announced that we had come to anchor for the night in Hale Cove.
— from Notes of a naturalist in South America by John Ball

He disinherited her, and made a will that Chesterton, a distant relative, should fall heir to the Deming plantation, which is very valuable, if no children of his daughter were found before January 1st, 1864.
— from The Lure of the Mississippi by D. (Dietrich) Lange

While they were thus engaged, and just as Pee-eye-em had, in the energy of an enthusiastic peroration burst the blue surtout almost up to the collar, a distant rushing sound was heard, which caused every man to spring to his feet, run out of the tent, and seize his weapons.
— from The Dog Crusoe and his Master by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

"Well, then," she suggested, cheerfully, after due reflection, "since we can't go down, why not go up?"
— from The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

To constitute a distinct race, says Zaborowski, a wide geographical area is needed, such as is presented by both shores of the Mediterranean "with the whole of North Africa including the Sahara, which was till lately still thickly peopled [1012] ."
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

"Encores que M. le Connestable luy ayt escript plusieurs lettres, néantmoins il m'a toujours dict qu'il ne se fieroit jamais de luy, ayant bien cogneu que ce semblant d'amitié qu'il luy portoit n'estoit que pour l'attirer de son costé, affin de ruiner ses cousins," etc.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

This brief syllogism, and its briefer negative, involving the principle which some English conveyancer borrowed from a French wit and embodied in the lines by which Dr. Fell is made unamiably immortal,—this syllogism, I say, is one that most persons have had occasion to construct and demolish, respecting somebody or other, as I have done for the Model.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various