It already numbers nearly an hundred pupils, in the male and female departments, embracing residents in various quarters of the country.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 6, December 1837 by Various

Cum vero iussi essent in vicem dicere, unus ex composito rem orditur; dumque intentus in eum se rex totus avertit, alter elatam securim in eius caput deiecit, et relicto in vulnere telo ambo foras se proripiunt.
— from Selections from Viri Romae by C. F. L'Homond

But, instead of this edifice, a monument has been raised to the glory of the French warriors, ære perennius ;—a work in twenty-six volumes, by a society of military men and men of letters: it is entitled "Victoires et Conquêtes" in very large capitals, "désastres et revers" in very small capitals, of the French
— from Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste

With what interest do we think of blind, glorious John Milton, when writing Paradise Lost , sitting at "the old organ behind the faded green hangings," his dimmed eyes rolling in vain to find the day; of Richardson, in his back-shop, writing Pamela ; of Cowper and his tame hares; of Byron and Newstead Abbey; of Burns, in his humble cottage home; of Voltaire, in his retreat of Ferney, by the shores of Lake Leman; of Sir Walter Scott, in his study at Abbotsford; of Dr. Johnson, in his retreat in Bolt Court; of Shakspeare, and the woods of Charlecote; of Pope, and his house at Twickenham; of Swift, and his living at Laracor.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXIX., October, 1852 by Various