Arrivé sous la tente du roi de Prusse, la colère et sa douleur patriotique le firent éclater en sanglots.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

—Me parece notar aquí que mediante un corto canal podría unirse el Amazonas con el sistema del Plata.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Dr. J. Campbell of Galion reported a case of embolism, in which the diagnosis was uncertain, the symptoms grave and the disturbance of the circulation extremely severe, distinguished physicians differing widely as to the pathological conditions, and the autopsy revealed adhesions of the right lung and of the pericardum.
— from The Cleveland Medical Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1886 by Various

Elle avoit le Dimanche un peu plus de repos, Car ayant du matin fait sa petite affaire, Elle entroit dans sa chambre & tenant son huis clos, Elle se decrassoit, puis ouvroit sa cassette, Mettoit proprement sa toilette Rangeoit dessus ses petits pots, Devant son grand miroir contente & satisfaite; De la Lune tantôt, la robe elle mettoit Tantôt celle où le feu du Soleil éclattoit, Tantôt la belle robe blüe Que tout l'azur des Cieux ne sçauroit égaler, Avec ce chagrin seul que leur traînante queüe Sur le plancher trop court ne pouvoit s'étaler.
— from Popular Tales by Charles Perrault

[64] Gillray caricatured him (May, 1792) in 'Le Cochon et ses deux Petites,' where, holding a tumbler of wine in his hand, he is toying with two very fleshly ladies.
— from Florizel's Folly by John Ashton

ARMSTRONG ESQ R Secretary to the Fund The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World AND OF THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL TRANSCRIBED FROM THE BOOK OF GOD’S REMEMBRANCES, KNOWN AS THE AKASHIC RECORDS, BY LEVI WITH INTRODUCTION BY EVA S. DOWLING, A. Ph. D. LONDON: L. N. FOWLER AND COMPANY E. S. DOWLING, PUBLISHER, Los Angeles,
— from The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of The Church Universal by Levi

It would be easy to show that the early pedigree positively teems with absurdities similar to those I have already exposed, but it would be sheer waste of time to devote any more attention to proofs, which Col. Morres proudly boasted were 'vérifiés avec la plus scrupuleuse attention par l'autorité competente et sanctionnés désormais par l'autorisation du prince qui gouverne aujourd'hui l'empire britannique' (p. 25).
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

Incipient formations in the body politic, cutting across and subverting its old constitution, eat one another up, like different species of animals; and the combat can never cease except some day, perhaps, for lack of combatants.
— from Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies by George Santayana