More, I read of a stone house called Sto da de Winton juxta Stenden bridge, which in that lane was over Walbrooke water.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The aged sisters draw us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: over us dead they bend.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Common seaman Domingo Alvarez Common seaman Domingo Gonzalez Common seaman Domingo de Zubillan 74 Portuguese Common seaman Andres Blanco Common seaman
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

" "There are nearly as many Elliotts and Crawfords," said Doctor Dave, after the laughter had subsided.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Après avoir feint de ne pas avoir entendu la question, question de songer à une réponse adéquate, je lui ai répondu qu'au début, un bon chroniqueur se devait d'avoir les deux pieds bien ancrés dans le milieu des technologues et des créatifs.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

We find, in some cases, that alternatives present themselves, between which it is necessary that we should decide; but between which we cannot pretend that Common Sense does decide, and which often seem equally or nearly equally plausible.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Ce sont des dons que sa Providence a presque toujours séparés.”
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

replied by the Bull of 1656, wherein he condemned such distinctions, declaring that the five propositions were taken from the work of Jansen, and that they were [6] condemned in the sense of that author.
— from The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-Christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham

“Chatham,” says Dr. Doran, the actor’s admirable biographer, “had addressed him living in verse, and peers sought for the honour of supporting the pall at his funeral.”
— from Haunted London by Walter Thornbury

The members of the Exiles’ Club should disperse deviously, and as soon as Smith’s rotten schooners can take them.
— from The Exiles of Faloo by Barry Pain

He had every intellectual and moral advantage; a ready flow of happy diction, which seemed perfectly spontaneous, and yet exactly suited the thought; a playful humor, and, when needed, keenness of wit and satire which added zest to his serious speech, but detracted not from its weight; a quick insight into the heart of a subject, judgment remarkably sound, the logical spirit without slavery to logical forms, and an imagination which could sport like a butterfly amid flowers, or soar like an eagle beyond the clouds; sensibility delicate, deep, strong—acute sympathy with his fellow-man; a response in his feelings to everything true, pure, generous, and grand.
— from History of Randolph-Macon College, Virginia The Oldest Incorporated Methodist College in America by Richard Irby