The same Polyphile, in recounting his adventures on a visit to the infernal regions, tells us that he saw, in the hands of the cruel Eumenides, ------Les auteurs de maint hymen forcé L'amant chiche, et la dame au coeur intéressé; La troupe des censeurs, peuple à l'Amour rebelle; Ceux enfin dont les vers ont noirci quelque belle.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

nõ ſi portaua in terra ſinon cõ cinquanta homini Como erano li dui armati
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

[2] como es la de, as is; like .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Su vida entera parecía, empero, concentrarse en sus ojos, de un negro brillante y sombrío, en que todas las pasiones parecían teñirse de relámpagos, como en los de aquel admirable tipo de belleza guerrera, su capitán favorito, las Heras.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

La isla de Cuba, entre las dos Américas,
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus, Carthaginensis, artis oratoriae professione clarus, magnam sibi gloriam, opes, honores acquisivit, epularibus caenis et largis dapibus assuetus, pretiosa veste conspicuus, auro atque purpura fulgens, fascibus oblectatus et honoribus, stipatus clientium cuneis, frequentiore comitatu officii agminis honestatus, ut ipse de se loquitur in Epistola ad Donatum.
— 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

By the great fire we made our first meal ashore since we left my home in Caithness eight long days ago.
— from A Sea Queen's Sailing by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

I passed to-day through extensive orchards, which were not under water, but fairly submerged by mud and clay; everything looks deplorable and depressing; you must therefore forgive the doleful style of this last sheet.
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

They used to call every lame dog and donkey a Trapani ; and now every blind animal is sure to be christened a Monpenseer .”
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

"They've a fare," the coachman explained, leaning down anew.
— from Sophia: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

Skeptics sought to cast doubt on much of the correct evidence later developed and to find support for their own theories in these early police statements.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

Dyvelin en garde, la cité E la chastel e le dongun , A Huge de Laci le barun.”
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

They cost me about one dollar and sixty-eight cents each, laid down at my door in New York.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

Nationality: noun: Chinese adjective: Chinese Ethnic groups: Chinese 95%, other 5% Religions: eclectic mixture of local religions 90%, Christian 10% Languages: Chinese (Cantonese), English Literacy: definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 92.2% male: 96% female: 88.2% (1996 est.)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency