And of two deformed things, that which exceeds in deformity or disgrace, exceeds either in pain or evil—must it not be so? POLUS:
— from Gorgias by Plato

It might excite surprise in our minds that a large section of the Christian church could thus be engaged for ten years in an earnest, expensive, and bitter controversy about the costume of a painting, were it not that we sometimes see examples at the present day, of disputes equally earnest and protracted, about points smaller and more shadowy still.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVII, August 1852, Vol. V by Various

In Abyssinia, Nubia, and part of Arabia, he is, both in writing and conversation, called Deeb, or Deep, either ending with a b or p; and here the confusion begins, for though Dubbah is properly a hyæna, Dabbu is a species of monkey; and though Deeb is likewise a hyæna, the same word signifies a jackal; and a jackal being by naturalists called a wolf, Deeb is understood to be a wolf also.
— from Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5. by James Bruce

I was aware, my lords, of the peculiar talents of my noble friend in certain respects, for this particular office, and of his consequent fitness for this very description of diplomatic employment, especially on account of his being a military officer of high rank in the service of this country, and of distinguished reputation in the Russian army.
— from Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century by Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of

The Miracle Play, dead or dying everywhere else, has lived and been perfected at Oberammergau.
— from The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches by David Starr Jordan

Every precaution is taken that there may be no doubtful or difficult expression employed.
— from The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by G. H. (George Henry) Gerberding

3. In a few instances the feminine is formed as in Latin, by changing or to rix ; but some of these have also the regular form, which ought to be preferred: as, adjutor, adjutrix; administrator, administratrix; arbitrator, arbitratrix; coadjutor, coadjutrix; competitor, competitress , or competitrix; creditor, creditrix; director, directress , or directrix; executor, executress , or executrix; inheritor, inheritress , or inheritrix; mediator, mediatress , or mediatrix; orator, oratress , or oratrix; rector, rectress , or rectrix; spectator, spectatress , or spectatrix; testator, testatrix; tutor, tutoress , or tutress , or tutrix; deserter, desertress , or desertrice , or desertrix .
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown