Our duty obliges us, however, to add that Catholics should also take warning from his life of the fatal effects flowing from early disobedience to the precepts and counsels of the church, which subsequent penance is frequently unavailing to remove.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

Mascardus says: 'Feminis plerumque omnino non creditur, et id dumtaxat, quod sunt feminae qua ut plurimum solent esse fraudulentre fallaces, et dolosae' [Generally speaking, no credence at all is given to women, and for this reason, because they are women, who are usually deceitful, untruthful, and treacherous in the very highest degree.]
— from Courts and Criminals by Arthur Cheney Train

So the glass knobs on which the wires of the telegraph rest are insulators, preventing the electric fluid from escaping down the poles into the ground.
— from Science for the School and Family, Part I. Natural Philosophy by Worthington Hooker

He told them that, in order to give them time to make a thorough investigation, they were excused from farther exercises during the day.
— from The Teacher Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott

And where, Sara, where in this world will you find an existence free from earthly dust?
— from The Home; Or, Life in Sweden by Fredrika Bremer

Dinners being formal evening functions, formal evening dress is essential.
— from The Complete Bachelor: Manners for Men by Walter Germain

[207] and Latin Classics, and of those who, like the author of the Argenis [William Barclay, 1546-1605], and Euphormio, Fracastorius, Flaminius, etc., deserve that name though moderns—and every year to apply all my book-money to the gradual completion of the collection, and buy no other books except German, if the continent should be opened again, except Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Jonson.
— from Anima Poetæ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge