Quindi sentimmo gente che si nicchia ne l'altra bolgia e che col muso scuffa, e se' medesma con le palme picchia.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Con cagne magre, studiose e conte
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

My heart bleeds fresh with agonizing pain; The bowl and tasteful viands tempt in vain; Nor sleep's soft power can close my streaming eyes, When imaged to my soul his sorrows rise.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

I could cite many similar errors from Gomara's history, and thereby [Pg 51] convince the reader that it is better to believe an eyewitness than an author who writes about things he never saw.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

"Come, choose, Margaret," said Ellen Chauncey; "I dare say Ellen wants the blue morocco as much as you do."
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

You shall learn for yourselves the precise nature of my malady; and shall, too, judge for yourselves whether any man born of woman on this weary earth was ever so tormented as I. Speaking now as a condemned criminal might speak ere the drop-bolts are drawn, my story, wild and hideously improbable as it may appear, demands at least attention.
— from Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling

At the respective period of visiting those parts of the North-west Coast, this gouty tree had previously cast its foliage of the preceding year, which is of quinary insertion, but it bore ripe fruit, which is a large elliptical pedicellated unilocalar capsule (a bacca corticosa) containing many seeds enveloped in a dry pithy substance.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King

I cant change my soul, Elder: it changes me—sometimes.
— from The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet by Bernard Shaw

The case completed Make six envelopes by taking six pieces of paper nine by thirteen inches and cut a two and a half inch square from each corner ( Figure 158 ).
— from The Library of Work and Play: Needlecraft by Effie Archer Archer