del' i voyelle en sa premiere liberte.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

So it was with Father Forest, who had taught his penitents in confession that they might perjure themselves, and who now sought a cruel death in voluntary expiation; so it was with Whiting, the Abbot of Glastonbury; so with others whose names should be more familiar to us than they are; and here in Woburn we are to see the feeble but genuine penitence of Abbot Hobbes.
— from Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude

Yet such was the case; and Gilbert even went so far as to deny its very existence, saying, "Electrics attract objects of every kind; they never repel."
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian

One day in very early spring—or was it very late in winter?—I walked along the old canal road, looking for some evidence in tree growth that spring was really at hand.
— from Getting Acquainted with the Trees by J. Horace (John Horace) McFarland

"He did it very easily," said Rosalind, almost as if in resentment.
— from The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

But he with an host came thither and discomfited the Scots, chased them into a marsh, and besieged them there so long, that they were almost famished: vntill the bishops, abbats, and men of religion (for as much as they were christened people) besought him to take them to his mercie and grace, and to grant them a portion of the same countrie to dwell in vnder euerlasting subiection.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

If they fail in one district or province, the deficiency is very easily supplied to people who have equivalents to give for the produce of another.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden