Pierre Joseph Buc'hoz, physician to the king of Poland, in 1787, made a business of supplying roasted coffee in small packets, each sufficient for one cup.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It is a pity that their yearning for posthumous notoriety was gratified, inasmuch as the sentimental articles written to order by dexterous pens, and the verses composed in honour of the two lunatics by Béranger, in which a romantic halo is thrown over their audacious crime, "Et vers le ciel se frayant un chemin, Ils sont partis en se donnant la main"... encouraged, it is to be feared, a suicidal mania.
— from Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

My friends, that must be a Shanghai; no domestic-born cock could crow in such prodigious exulting strains.
— from The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches by Herman Melville

Siquidem ab ineunte ætate nunquam Iusus aut ioci consuetudinem præbuit; adeoque humanæ delectationis uacuus fuit, ut labiorum continentiam iugi silentio premeret, et seueritatem oris a ridendi prorsus officio temperaret.
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers

The type has been called unfluted Cumberland in several papers, especially Soday and Cambron (n. d.).
— from Handbook of Alabama Archaeology: Part I, Point Types by James W. Cambron

Here comes in speed Pentheus, Echîon's son, whom I have raised To rule my people in my stead.—Amazed He seems.
— from Hippolytus; The Bacchae by Euripides

"Of course, I should prefer Eton," she said, "but I suppose you will do as you like—as usual!"
— from The Dark Tower by Phyllis Bottome

[61] CHAPTER IV SOME POINTS EXAMINED Such is a general sketch of the trend of the negotiations and of the events which led up to the war.
— from The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct by Arthur Conan Doyle

Eobanus and Adolarius in which they were carried in solemn procession every seven years.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar