Remembering how President Kennedy and his administrative officials and congressional leaders used political extortion and promises of bribes with public money to force the House of Representatives, in January, 1961, to pack the House Rules Committee, imagine how the President could whip Congress, and the whole nation, into line if the President had just some of the additional, unconstitutional power which the Commission on Money and Credit wants him to have.
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

Trewly, madame, ye have reason, wherfore in fulfyllyng that whiche I have Certes, madame, uous auéz rayson, pourquoy en accomplissant ce que jay begon, I do warne you that all maner meates sodden what encomencé, je uous aduertis que touttes uiandes bouilliez quelles so ever it be, holde more of the ayre and of the water (whiche ben two quelles soient, tiennent plus de lair et de leau (qui sont deulx elementes wherof doth come and springe blode and fleame: understande elementz dont procedent et pullulent sang et fleugme: nentendes nat neverthelesse but all maner of meate holde of the foure complexions, pas touttes fois que touttes uiandes ne tiennent des quatre complexions, the one more and the other lesse, for if I be well enformed, the complexion les unes plus et aultres moins, car se je suis bien aduerty, la complexion of thynges take denomynation of the qualytes principall domynant in des choses prent denomination de la qualyté principalle dominant en the same) than they do of the other twayne.
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés

Then they conversed long upon past events, and Francis and his sister returned late to their home, grateful but wearied by the events of the day.
— from A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History (Volume 2 of 3) by Meadows Taylor