At least, so he says, but I don’t give much for it myself, for if he did ’e never said a word about it to his missis when ’e got ’ome, and it was only after the escape of the wolf was made known, and we had been up all night-a-huntin’ of the Park for Bersicker, that he remembered seein’ anything.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

But what dismal equipage now struggles along the uneven street?
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Morte per forza e ferute dogliose nel prossimo si danno, e nel suo avere ruine, incendi e tollette dannose; onde omicide e ciascun che
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Because in the oligarchical State they are disqualified and driven from office, and therefore they cannot train or gather strength; whereas in a democracy they are almost the entire ruling power, and while the keener sort speak and act, the rest keep buzzing about the bema and do E not suffer a word to be said on the other side; hence in democracies almost everything is managed by the drones.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

[6355] Adeo ignara superstitio mentes hominum depravat, et nonnunquam sapientum animos transversos agit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The heart is ascribed to him, it being the principle of vital actions, to signify the life that he hath in himself; watchful and discerning eyes, not sleepy and lazy ones; a mouth to reveal his will, not to take in food.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

Man an' maid, woman an' child, their nature done 'em no service all the weeks while the Marsh was swarvin' up with Pharisees.
— from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling

Whereas the mere payment of humdrum debts excites no such agreeable glow of feeling, and is altogether a flat, stale, and unprofitable proceeding.
— from A Charming Fellow, Volume III by Frances Eleanor Trollope

The play upon the word was not absolutely a novelty to my ear, but it was good-natured, and I smiled again, and perhaps made a faint inclination, as much as to say, "I hear you, young gentlemen, but I do not forget that I am standing on my dignity, especially now since a new degree has added a moral cubit to my stature."
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have found out since that the duke employed no such agent, and this matter must be inquired into.
— from At Agincourt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty