Fué publicado el presente publico pregon por los lugares acostumbrados de Barcelona por mi Canals en lugar de Francisco de Sevia con son de quatro trompetas á veinte y tres de Diciembre de mil quinientos y veinte y tres.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

The Top of the Mountain, which exhales it, is cold, and not cover’d with Ashes, but with asort of light cloddy Earth, little different from the Pomice-Stone burnt in our Fiery Mountains.
— from The Discovery and Conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands. Containing their History, Ancient and Modern, Natural and Political: Their Description, Product, Religion, Government, Laws, Languages, Customs, Manners, Habits, Shape, and Inclinations of the Natives. With an Account of many other adjacent Islands, and several remarkable Voyages through the Streights of Magellan, and in other Parts. by Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola

They were brought up as mere boarders in a convent eighty leagues distant from the Court.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 2 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

But what is most important is that he copied every least detail from life and nature, as one who knew that the true way is to observe and imitate the reality.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero by Giorgio Vasari

The land to which most of the Russian convicts are banished, Siberia, is, curiously enough, less dangerous for a traveller than the European possessions of the czar.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

I had been in the convent now for some eight years, striving after perfection; but a wearisome task it was, ever striving to observe all the minutiæ of convent rules, ever confessing every little deviation from the three vows aforementioned.
— from Nunnery life in the Church of England; or, Seventeen years with Father Ignatius by Mary Agnes, Sister, O.S.B.

The epitaph is "Petra tegit Petrum, nihil officiat sibi tetrum," and Westcott in his "View of Devon" writes, "which verse was written in an ancient character, each letter distant from the other at least four inches; so that this short verse supplied the whole large circumference, and cost me some labour in finding out and reading it."
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Addleshaw