"Ore vous lairons à conter de ceste matière et retournerons à parler de la Loy des genz de Bretaingne la Grant .
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Now this Chronicle does contain mention of Marco's capture in action by the Genoese, but attributes it to a different action from Curzola, and one fought at a time when Polo could not have been present.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Interpolation Sounds To the Sun-Set Breeze Old Chants A Christmas Greeting Sounds of the Winter A Twilight Song When the Full-Grown Poet Came Osceola A Voice from Death A Persian Lesson The Commonplace "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" Mirages L. of G.'s Purport The Unexpress'd Grand Is the Seen Unseen Buds Good-Bye My Fancy!
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Nevertheless in no country does crime more rarely elude punishment.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Laisser de --, ne pas tenir compte de. cou , m. , partie du corps qui joint la tête aux épaules.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Cotîdiê discipulî cum magistrô in perist[y]lô 9 Mârcî domûs sedêbant.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Tyrrheni insulis pyraticis et invictis, Cretâ, Cypro, Siciliâ, cum Oceano conterterminis insulis, et regionibus, cruenta Hybernia, cum agili Wallia palustris Scotia, glacialis Norwegia, suam electam militiam sub vexillo Crucis destinabunt, &c. (Matthew Paris, p. 498.)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

James Sutherland , University College, London H. T. Swedenberg, Jr. , University of California, Los Angeles CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis , Clark Memorial Library INTRODUCTION The great English novel of the eighteenth century was developed out of the long established traditions in the essay, letter, religious treatise, biography and personal memoir.
— from The Notorious Impostor (1692); Diego Redivivus (1692) by Elkanah Settle

The Marechaux de Vitri and Bassompierre, the Comte de Cremail, M. du Fargis, and M. du Coudrai Montpensier were then prisoners in the Bastille upon different counts.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Car, dans cette multitude de “meetings,” d’écrits, de discours, dirigés ces derniers temps contre l’État, ce sont toujours les mêmes faits affirmés et les mêmes témoignages produits.
— from Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence] by Roger Casement

“I'll tell you what we can do,” cried Miss Lady brightly, just as if she had not been trying to get herself up to the point of making the offer for a week.
— from A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

Where," he continued, "where are my wife and child?" "Alas! monsieur," she said, seeming while she spoke as though endeavouring to avoid answering him, "I have heard of you from my father; he was garde chasse at the Château de Chevagny many years ago."
— from Denounced: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

[14] On our first arrival at the island of Martinique, the Commanders in Chief dispatched Captain Mason (aid de camp to the General) bearing a flag of truce, with a summons to the town of St. Pierre.
— from An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794 Under the Command of their Excellencies Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K.B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. by Cooper Willyams