“ Diable! ” said Monte Cristo compassionately, “it is a hard blow for a third-rate fortune.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The bigger sort of sixth-form boys just described soon made common cause with the fifth, while the smaller sort, hampered by their colleagues' desertion to the enemy, could not make head against them.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

These are they which Cardan thinks desire so much carnal copulation with witches (Incubi and Succubi), transform bodies, and are so very cold, if they be touched; and that serve magicians.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[5] del sentimentalismo más congojoso, cantó penas propias o lloró desdichas ajenas, derrochando en un mar de lágrimas las fuentes de la inspiración
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"In fact, my dear sir," Mr. Clark continued, "you have proved nothing except that some Emily Leonard married a man named Smith on the date named."
— from Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

The coins there used were Roman, borne thither by the course of trade, which during so many centuries carried the gold and silver eastward.
— from History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12) by A. S. (Angelo Solomon) Rappoport

M. Huc's Travels in Tartary, Thibet, &c. 'These are they which Cardan thinks desire so much carnal copulation with witches (Incubi and Succubi), transform bodies, and are so very cold if they be touched, and that serve magicians....
— from The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard Williams

I’m going to get unharnessed,” and he proceeded to don some more comfortable clothes than those in which he had traveled.
— from Those Smith Boys on the Diamond; or, Nip and Tuck for Victory by Howard Roger Garis