4. The threshold of excess is less easily reached than in men.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis

And adverbs end in letter E, Rapide in a rapid way.
— from Facts in Jingles by Winifred Sackville Stoner

I can spare all the eggs I like,” Ellen retorted.
— from The Wall Between by Sara Ware Bassett

d. a da[y] as by the king es graunt therof made vnder his signet beryng date the second day of May in the xxiii th yere of his reigne and other his sp ec iall l ette res sithens directed vnto you for that purpose it dothe more playnly appere.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

During Shakespeare’s lifetime there existed in London eleven regular theatres, a brief account of each of these will be chronicled in the following pages: THE THEATRE
— from Shakespeare and the Stage With a Complete List of Theatrical Terms Used by Shakespeare in His Plays and Poems, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, & Explanatory Notes by Maurice Jonas

St. Jerome says somewhere of spoken Latin that "it changes constantly as you pass from one district to another, and from one period to another" (et ipsa Latinitas et regionibus cotidie mutatur et tempore).
— from The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Frank Frost Abbott

It was true that it involved the doing of something he had not contemplated, and the certainty of exposure if 'Lige ever returned, but he was nevertheless resolved.
— from A First Family of Tasajara by Bret Harte