All these, and many more, although containing some excellent passages, are on the whole exaggerated and unreal, both in manner and in matter.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

All translators have rendered “contus” by “pole,” notwithstanding the fact that the word is used in a very different sense in Priapeia, x, 3: “traiectus conto sic extendere pedali,” and contrary to the tradition which lay behind the gift of an apple or the acceptance of one.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Or one can say equally politely and omit the please, "I'd like some toast," but it is usual and instinctive to every lady or gentleman to add "please."
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

—Sí, veo la cruz. 10 —Allí hay una casa vieja, en la cual se esconden para aguardar a los tragineros.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

[1038] Capivaccius and Mercurialis have copiously discussed this question, and both conclude the subject is the inner brain, and from thence it is communicated to the heart and other inferior parts, which sympathise and are much troubled, especially when it comes by consent, and is caused by reason of the stomach, or mirach , as the Arabians term it, whole body, liver, or [1039] spleen, which are seldom free, pylorus, mesaraic veins, &c. For our body is like a clock, if one wheel be amiss, all the rest are disordered; the whole fabric suffers: with such admirable art and harmony is a man composed, such excellent proportion, as Ludovicus Vives in his Fable of Man hath elegantly declared.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

A single hereditary person, having the constant, supreme, executive power, and with it the power of convoking and dissolving the other two within certain periods of time.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

The fact is that the impossibility referred to is merely subjective, that is, our reason finds it impossible for it to render conceivable in the way of a mere course of nature a connection so exactly proportioned and so thoroughly adapted to an end, between two sets of events happening according to such distinct laws; although, as with everything else in nature that is adapted to an end, it cannot prove, that is, show by sufficient objective reason, that it is not possible by universal laws of nature.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

But he will find it difficult to equal this once celebrated school, as with the best will in the world he cannot find in this country such excellent professors as were assembled in that institution.
— from Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2 by Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Bernhard

"That's my class," Sutton explained, pointing at his own figure in the group.
— from The Youth of Parnassus, and Other Stories by Logan Pearsall Smith

"I call the attention of the Chairman," said Eldon Parr, after a certain interval in which no one had ventured to speak, "to the motion before the vestry relating to the discontinuance of Mr. Hodder's salary."
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

In addition to Farleigh Castle, Sir Edward possessed a great London house, standing with its gardens where now is Charing Cross station.
— from Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals by Alfred Marks