Sometimes at the Champ de Mars, sometimes at the Prefecture of Police, sometimes at both places at once.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Hinc rhetorum campus de Marathone, Salamine, Plataeis, Thermopylis, Leuctris, hinc noster Cocles, [56] hinc Decii, hinc Cn.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Pg 191] manquât, sa bonté se changeait en malice et il n’était point de mauvais tours dont il ne fût capable envers les gens qui l’avaient offensé, comme de renverser le contenu des marmites sur le foyer, d’embrouiller la laine autour des quenouilles, de rendre infumable le tabac des pipes, d’emmêler inextricablement les crins des chevaux, de dessécher le pis des vaches ou de faire peler le dos des brebis.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

I sprung up, and in an instant, without a word being said, had her on her back, and was into her delicious cunt as far as I could drive my stiff-standing prick.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

[card suits: list] spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds; major suit, minor suit.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

V ARIANT : Al cabo de medio siglo; cuando vaya corrido medio siglo.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Footnote 3: (return) See jade in Century Dictionary; "Magatama, so far as I am aware, do not ever appear to have been found in shell heaps" (of the aboriginal Ainos), Milne's Notes on Stone Implements, T.A.S.J., Vol.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

We do not find here music of strongly marked rhythm and clearly defined measure, suitable to the utterance of worldly emotions, but a melody resembling the chant, written in the tonalities used in the church, but containing a certain kind of prose rhythm and accentuation, such as exists in the Gregorian music.
— from Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson

Speaking of the glorious past of the art of Voice Culture, Dr. Mills says: "We have advanced, musically, in many respects since the days of the old Italian masters, but just as we must turn to the Greeks to learn what constitutes the highest and best in sculpture, so must we sit at the feet of these old masters.
— from The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern by David C. (David Clark) Taylor

Having in the preceding chapter dismissed Mrs. Stowe's narrative; I shall in the following pages, confine my remarks, so far as they refer to "Uncle Tom's Cabin," to its evident design and manifest tendency.
— from A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery by A. Woodward

"I've finished my business at the Grange, and it is no use my staying there; besides, Miss Challoner dislikes me so much that it was painful for me to live in the same house with her."
— from The Man with a Secret: A Novel by Fergus Hume

Shortly after ten the king himself, with his queen, the famous Catharine de Medicis, several of his children—among whom were three destined to be kings, and two queens of mighty nations—entered the hall, and took his place towards the head of the room.
— from Corse de Leon; or, The Brigand: A Romance. Volume 1 (of 2) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James