The aged sisters draw us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: over us dead they bend.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Saxon relics Consecration of a Saxon church Tower of Barnack Church, Northamptonshire Doorway, Earl’s Barton Church Tower window, Monkwearmouth Church Sculptured head of doorway, Fordington Church, Dorset Norman capitals Norman ornamental mouldings Croyland Abbey Church, Lincolnshire Semi-Norman arch, Church of St. Cross Early English piers and capitals Dog-tooth ornament Brownsover Chapel, Warwickshire Ball-flower mouldings, Tewkesbury Abbey Ogee arch Decorated capitals, Hanwell and Chacombe Decorated windows, Merton College Chapel; Sandiacre, Derbyshire Decorated mouldings, Elton, Huntingdonshire;
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

PER YARD; RECENTLY SOLD AT 75c CLOTH COLORED SERGES, DRAPS DE FRANCE, DRAPS D'ETE, CACHIMERES, MERINOES, SILK AND WOOL AND ALL WOOL EPINCLINES, Etc.
— from Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 38, December 17, 1870. by Various

"Why, certainly, certainly!" said Dr. Dean, soothingly.
— from Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul by Marie Corelli

The matter has culminated in an octavo volume lately out, Bonaparte, le Concordat de 1801 et le Cardinal Consalvi, suivi des deux Lettres au Père Theiner sur le Pape Clement XIV. , par J. Crétineau-Joly; and of which we made mention in our August number.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

Flats and sharps introduced into every bar; C, C sharp; D, D sharp; E, F, F sharp; G, G sharp; A, B flat, B, C.
— from Evelyn Innes by George Moore

Arthabaska, Beauce, Bellechasse, Bonaventure, Champlain, Charlevoix, Chicoutimi & Saguenay, Dorchester, Drummond, township of Kingsey only.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1872 by Canada. Post Office Department

A a A a a B b B b be C c C c see D d D d dee E e E e e F f F f eff G g G g jee H h H h aitch I
— from A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson