I wish to verify the working of the natural logic of my ideas tomorrow during the reading—whether I am capable of detecting logical errors, and whether all that I have meditated over during the last six months be true, or nothing but delirium.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In 1310, Thomas, second earl of Lancaster, son of Edmund Crouchback, married a great heiress, the only child of De Lacy, earl of Lincoln.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 by Various

In rendering the various circumstances of daily life, Egyptian and Ninevite sculpture is as frank and as diffuse as the Gothic.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

Were these words to be taken in their most obvious sense, then it would come one day later each week than it did the preceding week, and thus it would come successively on all the days of the week in order, at intervals of eight days.
— from The Complete Testimony of the Fathers of the First Three Centuries Concerning the Sabbath and First Day by John Nevins Andrews

O. N S Dunbar, Alexander, Elmsdale N S Dunham, Henry, Ompah O Dunham, C. F., Kaladar O Dunn, William, Washington O Dunning, G. G., Cumberland O Dunning, Levi E., East Templeton Q Duncan, George, Melrose O Duncan, James, Thamesville O Dumphy, Edward, Douglas, W. O. N B Dumphy, George, Dumphy, W.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1872 by Canada. Post Office Department

A few words went a great way in it, as was now apparent; for in less than two minutes after Aaron had issued his decree, those namesakes of the prophets and law-givers of old, Nathaniel, and Moses, and Daniel, were quitting the clearing on diverging lines, each carrying a formidable, long, American hunting-rifle in his hand.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

I take care o’ de lubber ef I once get im widin reach o’ dis chile’s arm.”
— from The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid

As the mare scuffed off down the road, amid a cloud of dust, Lucy entered the store.
— from The Wall Between by Sara Ware Bassett