Arrangements were easily effected with some of the numerous corps of body-snatchers, with which London abounds; and, upon the third night after the funeral, the supposed corpse was unearthed from a grave eight feet deep, and deposited in the opening chamber of one of the private hospitals.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

She supplied the place of one of her female attendants who was beloved by Peredeus, and contrived some excuse for darkness and silence, till she could inform her companion that he had enjoyed the queen of the Lombards, and that his own death, or the death of Alboin, must be the consequence of such treasonable adultery.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

ſuoi ſe aſegurorono et fece dire ali noſt
— 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

THE DREAM Analysis of Sample Dreams I HOPE you will not be disappointed if I again lay before you excerpts from dream analyses instead of inviting you to participate in the interpretation of a beautiful long dream.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Antes que eso, le aconsejaría constituir aquí una asociación entre fabricantes de artículos semejantes a los suyos, y reducir de ese modo los gastos de una representación en el exterior.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The district is empty by 6PM except for drunks and druggies, because with only one kind of building there, there's no legit reason for people to hang around after the sun goes down.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

His was the master mind which scanned the entire field, directed all operations and made the triumphs of others possible.
— from The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Henry Mann

This sentence was executed five days after.
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Various

Eric Fitch Daglish (A); 18Jul60; R260346.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Hendrik had a strong desire to live,—to enjoy future days;—and, as he looked upon the preparations being made to deprive him of it, he felt an unutterable anguish.
— from The Giraffe Hunters by Mayne Reid

It was now only necessary that both sides should agree on the enactments for doing away with the abuses which had been pointed out.
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

10 Feb Marine C-130 of VMGR-152, hit by enemy fire during approach, crashes after landing at Khe Sanh and six are killed.
— from The Battle for Khe Sanh by Moyers S. Shore

3: Further, no man should be forcibly prevented except from doing an evil deed; and any man can lawfully prevent another from doing this.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint