In Europe, where this form of reporting is decidedly rudimentary, it usually evinces neither tact nor taste; whereas in America it is really a literary form, and so familiar now as to excite no remark.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

That is why we applaud the just complaints of M. Chevalier, M. Dunoyer, and all those who demand reform in university education; on that also rests the hope of the results that we have promised ourselves from such reform.
— from System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

cani virtutibus aevi materiam pandit Stilicho populumque vetusti culminis inmemorem dominandi rursus in usum excitat, ut magnos calcet metuendus honores, pendat iustitia crimen, pietate remittat
— from Claudian, volume 2 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

Then the Danes devastated it, and after the Norman Conquest it was subdued by Fitzosborne, Earl of Hereford, whose descendants ruled it until Edward I. [Pg 513] recovered the wardenship for the Crown.
— from England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

They may arise from lunar influence, or from some peculiar action of the tides; but that they occur, and with disastrous results if unheeded, every fisherman from Stornoway to Cadiz will testify.
— from Flower of the Gorse by Louis Tracy

When they are drawn, Rush in upon 'em: all's fair prize you light on: I must away: your officer may give way To the Knavery of his watch, but must not see it.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 07 of 10 by John Fletcher

[Pg 317] The lovers' secret was carefully preserved for some time; nor was it until the brother and sister saw the unbridled passion of their dupe reach its utmost excess, and that his infatuation, which he could hardly restrain, threatened to burst forth afresh, and destroy all, that they resolved on their final coup .
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Eugène Sue