For though they were called Synagogues, that is to say, Congregations of the People; yet in as much as the Law was every Sabbath day read, expounded, and disputed in them, they differed not in nature, but in name onely from Publique Schools; and were not onely in Jerusalem, but in every City of the Gentiles, where the Jews inhabited.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

My brother's breast was all aglow With fury when he missed the foe, And, turning, thus to me he said With senses all disquieted: “Here by the cavern's mouth remain; Keep ear and eye upon the strain, While I the dark recess explore And dip my brand in foeman's gore.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

le ſpauilauão Veniſſemo ſoura li elefanti fino a La riua deL mare doue forono dui prao q̃ ne conduſcero ale nauj Queſta cita etuta fondata in acqua ſalſa ſaluo la caſa del re et algune de certy principali et
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

à partir principalement du roumain (et aussi de l'espagnol).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

[9] "Permet au Cardinal de Rohan et au dit de Cagliostro de faire imprimer et afficher le présent arrêt partout où bon leur semblera.
— from The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

We had dinner rather early, and dined in private, as Robert is feeling stiff now after this morning’s adventure.
— from The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy

Action and Uses : Nerve sedative; diminishes reflex excitability and depresses the motor area of the cortex.
— from Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments by William August Puckner

D o uút o , due, right, equitie, a dutie.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

On entering a house there one will find the housewife sitting with her rock ( Dan. , Rok; Eng. , a distaff) and spoele ( Dan. , Spole;
— from An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland by Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae