Him many answer: Camille Desmoulins, Clootz Speaker of Mankind, Paine the rebellious Needleman, and honourable Gallic Vindicators in that country and in this: but the great Burke remains unanswerable; 'The Age of Chivalry is gone,' and could not but go, having now produced the still more indomitable Age of Hunger.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

In Japan, as elsewhere, each purchaser, when he signs his 'order-form,' promises to pay, on certain dates, certain sums of money.
— from A Fantasy of Far Japan; Or, Summer Dream Dialogues by Kencho Suematsu

[295] The horrors of this siege, equal to any recorded in ancient history, have been described by the Polish Jesuit Krurinski, who personally witnessed them (see his History of the Revolution of Persia, published by Père du Cerceau); and they are noticed in the "Histoire de Perse depuis le commencement de ce siècle" of M. la Marnya Clairac, on authorities that cannot be disputed.—
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 1 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

And I even leave him full power over all my papers, except the Dialogues above mentioned; and though I can trust to that intimate and sincere friendship, which has ever subsisted between us, for his faithful execution of this part of my will, yet, as a small recompense of his pains in correcting and publishing this work, I leave him two hundred pounds, to be paid immediately after the publication of it: I also leave to Mrs Anne and Mrs Janet Hepburn, daughters of Mr James Hepburn of Keith, one hundred pounds a piece: To my cousin David Campbell, son of Mr Campbell, minister of Lillysleaf, one hundred pounds: To the Infirmary of Edinburgh, fifty pounds: To all the servants who shall be in my family at the time of my decease, one year's wages; and to my housekeeper, Margaret Irvine, three year's wages:
— from Philosophical Works, v. 1 (of 4) Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Editions Published by the Author by David Hume

of Alexander, 240 Chypre, 337 Cincincis, 338 Cincincis Seedling, 338 Cinquantième anniversaire, 338 Cire, 338 Cité Gomand, 338 Citrina, 338 Citron, 338 Citron des Carmes (syn. of Madeleine), 195 Citron d’Hyver, 339 Citron de Saint Paul, 339 Citron de Sierentz, 339 Citronnée, 339 Clairgeau, Pierre, orig. of Beurré Clairgeau, 132 Clairgeau (syn. of Beurré Clairgeau), 132 Clairgeau’s Butterbirne (syn. of Beurré Clairgeau), 132 Clap, 339 Clap, William, orig.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

It is scarcely necessary to refer to the texture of the later novels of Henry James, or to the amazing Côté de chez Swann of M. Marcel Proust, which latter is one of the most characteristic successes of the moment.
— from Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse

"— Inv. de Mademoiselle Louise Anne de Bourbon Condé de Charollais (sister of Mademoiselle de Clermont).
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.