Whereupon it is manifest that that countrey was by Britaines discouered, long before Columbus led any Spanyards thither.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12 America, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

[Britons] discovered long before Columbus led any Spaniards thither.”
— from The Boy's Hakluyt: English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery by Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe) Bacon

It was a shock; but 'les manières nobles et aisées, la tournure d'un homme de condition, le ton de la bonne compagnie, les grâces le je ne scais quoi qui plaît,' came to Lord Chesterfield's assistance, and he received his son's widow, who was not a pleasing person, and her two boys with kindness and good feeling, and provided for them quite handsomely by his will.
— from In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell

"My dear Lady Babbleton," cried Lady Harriett, taking both the hands of the dowager, "I am so glad to see you, and how well you are looking; and your charming daughters, how are they?—sweet girls!—and
— from Pelham — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

But that a street or a trackway of some kind, of an identical route with the present highway, ran between London and Dover long before Cæsar landed can scarce be matter for doubt.
— from The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

The Life of Henry Demarest Lloyd , by C. Lloyd (2 vols., 1912) contains an admirable and sympathetic survey of the growth of anti-trust feeling, and should be supplemented by the writings of H.D. Lloyd, more particularly, "The Story of a Great Monopoly" (in Atlantic Monthly , March, 1881), and Wealth against Commonwealth (1894).
— from The New Nation by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson

Above the park, towards Conches, a dozen little brooks, clear, limpid streams coming from the Morvan, fall into the pond, after adorning with their silvery ribbons the valleys of the park and the magnificent gardens around the chateau.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Quelli che vedi qui furon modesti a riconoscer se' da la bontate che li avea fatti a tanto intender presti: per che le viste lor furo essaltate con grazia illuminante
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

"Now then," he said, "before we drink like boon companions, let us consult like men; there is need now of counsel; that once finished"—— "Fulvia awaits me," interrupted Cassius, "Fulvia, worth fifty revels!"
— from The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert

They opposed, and at times with rare sense, demolishing liberalism by conservative liberalism; and they might be heard saying: "Have mercy on Royalism, for it has rendered more than one service.
— from Les Misérables, v. 3/5: Marius by Victor Hugo