Servilius Caepio, G. Sempronius Blaesus.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

s. , S; stirte , pt. s. , S; stirt , S; sterte , C, G; stert , S2; stert , pp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

I think I can get something, now this thing's off my hands.”
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Kanning Aug. 1721 † James Crane George Smithson Stanwich Galley Captain Tarlton Aug.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

"And your uncle Clair says he will never make an artist, unless he changes greatly," said Aunt Amy, rather sadly.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

It is quoted by Lucian, Plutarch, Clement, Galen, Synesius, Hierocles, Arrian, Simpicius, besides being imitated, e.g. by Ovid: "video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor."
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

[154] " Deed, I canna guess ," said the husband, resting musingly on his spade.
— from Scotch Wit and Humor by W. H. (Walter Henry) Howe

Or have you, in a bright and dewy morning, heard the "murmur of folk at their prayers," the drone of a church organ, and, beyond the hedgerow, two graceless lovers quarrelling, and an atheist, leaning over the church gate, sneering to his fellow at the devotion of deluded Sabbath-keepers?
— from Flames by Robert Hichens

We were down at the barn looking at some new pigs, when we heard the big corral gates swing shut, so we hastened out to see who it could be so late in the day.
— from Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

In Henry Peacham's "The Compleat Gentleman" (1622), the model Cavalier is portrayed in terms of horsemanship, tilting, sports, choice of companions, reserved and dignified conduct, good scholarship, and responsibility.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

When Jane saw the little room where Viola lived, she marveled, with the exceedingly great marveling of a woman to whom love of a man has never come, at a woman who could give so much and with no return.
— from The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

She is a prodigious clever girl; she is faith!
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 2 of 5) by Fanny Burney

“Of course,” Gale said.
— from The Adventure Girls in the Air by Clair Blank

Here we want far more careful grammatical studies on the language of the Veda, before we can venture to translate with certainty.
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller