"Go on, you drunken vagabone," said the face.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

Rainbow Valley was roofed over with a sunset of unusual splendour that night; a wonderful grey dusk just touched with starlight followed it; and then came moonshine, hinting, hiding, revealing, lighting up little dells and hollows here, leaving others in dark, velvet shadow.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The woodborne people fall before her flat, And worship her as Goddesse of the wood; And old Sylvanus selfe bethinkes not, what To thinke of wight so faire, but gazing stood, 140 In doubt to deeme her borne of earthly brood; Sometimes Dame Venus selfe he seemes to see, But Venus never had so sober mood; Sometimes Diana he her takes to bee, But misseth bow, and shaftes, and buskins to her knee.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Monseignour Nicolas et Monseignour Mafé , à l'ore quand Alau , frère charnel dou Grant Sire Cublay , ala en ost seur Baudas , et print le Calife et sa maistre cité, atout son vaste tresor d'or et d'argent, et l'amère parolle que dist ledit Alau au Calife, com l'a escripte li Maistres Rusticiens ou chief de cestui livre.[12] "Car sachiés tout voirement que Messires Marc moult se deleitoit à faire appert combien sont pareilles au font les condicions des diverses regions dou monde, et soloit-il clorre son discours si disant en son language de Venisse: 'Sto mondo xe fato tondo , com uzoit dire mes oncles Mafés.'
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Act of God, a legal term defined as "a direct, violent, sudden, and irresistible act of nature, which could not, by any reasonable cause, have been foreseen or resisted".
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

[The Country Doctor.] VIGNOL (See Bouffe.)
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Then, addressing M. Hénault, ‘ J’ai bien l’honneur de vous saluer .’
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

Mon voyage depeint Vous sera d'un plaisir extreme. Je dirai: j'étais là; telle chose m'avint:
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

Recent progress includes the development of audio-visual aids, rehabilitation education courses for disabled veterans, special education for the "exceptional" child and for the mentally retarded child, distributive education and adult education
— from Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia by Dorothy Margaret Torpey

Master Thomas de Valeynes seems to have been a person of some importance in Oxfordshire and the adjoining counties [128] .
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

I longed even to hear his deep voice sing once more, "I think in the olden days," and was as uncomfortable in my isolation as Peter Schlemihl when he had lost his shadow.
— from Barbarossa, and Other Tales by Paul Heyse