che 'nnanzi a li altri piu` presso li stanno; Democrito, che 'l mondo a caso pone, Diogenes, Anassagora e Tale, Empedocles, Eraclito e Zenone; e vidi il buono accoglitor del quale, Diascoride dico; e vidi Orfeo, Tulio e Lino e Seneca morale; Euclide geometra e Tolomeo, Ipocrate, Avicenna e Galieno, Averois, che 'l gran comento feo.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Even on the supposition that the Saxons really exterminated the old population and destroyed every vestige of the Roman system, it has already become obvious that it would not at all follow that they generally introduced free village communities; for in that case the evidence would go far to show that they most likely brought slaves with them and settled [p423] them in servile village communities round their own dwellings, as Tacitus saw the Germans of his time doing in Germany.
— from The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) by Frederic Seebohm

“It must be farther on,” he muttered; and, starting once more, he stopped at the end of another fifty yards or so, to have a fresh look round down each vista of trees, which started from where he stood.
— from The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn

It took nearly three months to dissolve every vestige of the world that had once revolved round Michael Gregoriev.
— from The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter

There are no less than thirty thousand tombs here, displaying every variety of taste and whim in the style and pattern, and filling a space of some hundred acres, the walks through which form quite a labyrinth, insomuch that the guides charge three francs to go through it, which I did not choose to pay.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 3, September 1837 by Various

Sometimes he might be describing past fact; sometimes he might be prophesying the future; sometimes he might speak of the past as if still present—as though he were even now with his Master in Cana or Jerusalem; sometimes he might be rapt in a present ecstasy; sometimes he might be describing ecstatic visions of the past; sometimes he might speak in poetic metaphor, sometimes in literal prose; but always he would be penetrated and imbued with the love of Christ.
— from Silanus the Christian by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Except the great walls, ten to fifteen miles in circuit, which the Turks have done their best to destroy, every vestige of the old city has disappeared.
— from The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor

In her hurry to destroy every vestige of them she sprang out of bed, lit a candle, and in her nightgown shuffled along in her slippers into the drawing-room, until she came to the rosewood table, surmounted by a phoenix palm.
— from A Mummer's Tale by Anatole France

We are the friends of art—therefore, we say, smash the copper-plate, destroy every vestige of the graver’s art, we are supplied, and heaven knows to what price these engravings may not subsequently rise!
— from Nuts and Nutcrackers by Charles James Lever

They ate and drank, smoked and chatted till midnight, discussing every variety of topic, old reminiscences and affairs of State, the Reichstag and political economy.
— from Fair Haven and Foul Strand by August Strindberg