Défense de répliquer un mot, de discuter, d'éclairer.
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

My deliverance from this orphan state,—from this disastrous darkness, rushed upon my mind.
— from Discipline by Mary Brunton

Noch weniger freilich als die von den meisten Autoren angenommene Deutung der Randbläschen unserer Medusen als Gehörorgane kann die von Agassiz und Fritz Müller vertretene Ansicht befriedigen, dass dieselben Augen seien....
— from Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous Systems by George John Romanes

Powell was known throughout the length and breadth of the Rocky Mountain Region as "the Major," while Thompson was quite as widely known as "Prof." Some of the geographic terms, like Dirty Devil River, Unknown Mountains, etc., were those employed before permanent names were adopted.
— from A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh