Meditantur iuveniores versusque quos imitentur accipiunt: audit discipula intentione magna et reddit vicibusque reticent; intelligitur emendatae correptio et in docente quaedam reprehensio.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

But soon Mr. Oseba stepped to the front with a confident dignity, and in a pleasing voice said:— “My learned colleagues, and you, my beloved countrymen and women, I have detained you long, and, that you might appreciate my conclusions, I have gone somewhat into details in my extensive review.
— from Mr. Oseba's Last Discovery by George W. (George William) Bell

Such a situation would have been difficult even for a born leader of men; but for Owen, whose gifts did not lie in that direction, it meant either resignation or acceptance of the inevitable.
— from Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere by John Willis Clark

Out of my sight, thou dost infect mine eyes Rich.
— from Richard III by William Shakespeare

Culture is for the few; and what a trumpery patchwork of frippery and finery and paste diamonds it must ever remain for the most of these!
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

And some day I might even ride in a hansom-cab, though I should have to succeed wonderfully to do that.
— from Nights in London by Thomas Burke

The prepositions used in the composition of Greek words are:— * * * * * * * * Now multiply each termination of a family into every preposition, and how prolific does it make each root!
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Yet Hope, who still in present sorrow Whispers the promise of to-morrow, Tells us of future days to come, When you shall glad our rustic home; When this wild whirlwind shall be still, And summer sleep on glen and hill, And Tweed, unvexed by storm, shall guide In silvery maze his stately tide, Doubling in mirror every rank Of oak and alder on his bank; And our kind guests such welcome prove As most we wish to those we love."
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier