Pero cuando a Ud. le dicen: «Ya sabe que esta casa es suya»
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

But the ascendancy of fleets of great battleships in naval warfare, like the phase of huge conscript armies upon land, draws to its close.
— from An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It is also very remarkable that Ickelsamer’s friend, Thomas Münzer, in his violent and bitter controversial attack upon Luther dating from that time, was also unable to bring forward charges of immorality.
— from Luther, vol. 2 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

being two Myles distant from Wolverhampton their Prshe Church and towards the repairinge of the said Chappell and the said yearly pfitts thereof were soe used and imployed for many yeares togeather uppon consideracon of wch said cause and uppon longe debate thereof before divse Comissioners in psence of Councell of both ptes ambiguity and doubtings arisinge whether the said Copyhold Lands were originally given to the maintenance of a Chantery Preist or otherwise to the maintenance of a Curate of Preist to say Divine Service in the Chappell aforesaid The said Inhabitants are contented to refer themselves therein to the consideracon of Sir John Leveson Knt and John Giffard Esquire Lords of the Mannor of Stowheath within wch Mannor the said Towne of Willenhall lyeth and is pcel wch usadge and imploymt of the saide rents and pfitts of the said Lands the said Sr John Leveson and Jhn Giffard Esqre well accepting of are willing to give furtherance to soe
— from The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood

lui od son poair p’st bataille es champs a une lue de Peiters et alasmes a plus p’s de lui qe nos poiams
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous

He was but little interrupted, and sate with folded arms, his hat coming, as usual, low down on his head, and almost entirely concealing a powerfully-developed forehead.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852 by Various

I settle down at the end of the room, on the sofa with the faded cover, and, until Lampron deigns to grant me audience, I am free to sleep, or smoke, or turn over the wonderful drawings that lean against the walls.
— from The Ink-Stain (Tache d'encre) — Volume 1 by René Bazin

It never influenced in the slightest degree the men who were consciously and unconsciously laying deep and broad the foundations of modern geography.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

If, ere it come, all under Lusignan Do not look scorn on Vittia Pisani.
— from Yolanda of Cyprus by Cale Young Rice