These latter habiliments, impregnated with the wet of the day, but the dirt of a life, and lined with what another foot traveller in these parts call “rammish clowns,” evolved rank vapours and compound odours inexpressible, in steaming clouds.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

Comme la censure est réputée veiller aux mœurs publiques, le peuple abdique sa propre autorité, sa propre surveillance; il fait volontiers cause commune avec les licences du théâtre contre les persécutions de la censure.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

Eruca verò inibi superstes est copiosissima, monumentum futura monasticæ castitatis et rei veritatis.”— Adv. p. 68.
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

He published, says Mr. Besant, “a couple of Latin forgeries, which he proudly called ‘Ex reliquiis venerandæ antiquitatis,’ consisting of a pretended will and a contract.”
— from Books and Bookmen by Andrew Lang

Charming, enchanting, ravishing, very agreeable, highly pleasing.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

Single women, having no pleasure in and hence no desire for conjugation, if they are not induced to give themselves for pecuniary considerations, easily remain virtuous and seem to be very proud of this enforced purity.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey

Call extended, rising vote, all on their feet in a flash.
— from T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him by Eleanor McCutcheon Talmage