“Well, it does look encouraging, sure enough—but then the lacking indications—” “I’d rather we had them, Mr. Sterling, but I’ve seen more than one good permanent mine struck without ’em in my time.”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Qui e` da man, quando di la` e` sera; e questi, che ne fe' scala col pelo, fitto e` ancora si` come prim'era.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

It need not however necessarily denote low extraction: see e.g. Liv.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

96 Note 91 ( return ) [ The same number was applied to the following circumstance in the life of Motassem: he was the eight of the Abbassides; he reigned eight years, eight months, and eight days; left eight sons, eight daughters, eight thousand slaves, eight millions of gold.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

La maniere de s’en servir, la dose, & les principales 35 compositions de pharmacie, dans lesquelles elles sont employées.
— from The Library of William Congreve by William Congreve

De la Santa Iglesia de Lérida en su estado moderno.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

"Da Lion, 'e shekky 'e head; 'e say:— "'Ki!
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris