M. Renan says ‘ Tambouk , et non Pambouk, Kalessi ’ ( S. Paul p. 357).
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Esperante ke la meblaroj priskribitaj en nia prezaro, kune kun la tie-presitaj prezoj, estos plene kontentigaj, kaj certigante al vi ke ni zorge plenumos ĉiun mendon, ni restas, Tre respekte la viaj, Wilson kaj Jones.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Every thing is elementary, no previous knowledge is taken for granted.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson

Zanetti was charged, in some obscure way, with obstructing Jackson’s work in cutting 136 blocks for the Istoria del Testamento Vecchio e Nuovo , popularly known as the Bibbia del Nicolosi , 25 published by G. B. Albrizzi in 1737.
— from John Baptist Jackson: 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Jacob Kainen

She tried to keep her record high to the very last day, not even neglecting Professor Krenner’s lectures upon architectural drawing.
— from Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall; Or, The Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse by Annie Roe Carr

Another eminent naturalist, Professor Karl Semper of Würzburg, also adopts the view of the direct transforming power of the environment, and has brought together an immense body of interesting facts showing the influence of food, of light, of temperature, of still water and moving water, of the atmosphere and its currents, of gravitation, and of other organisms, in modifying the forms and other characteristics of animals.
— from Darwinism (1889) An exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications by Alfred Russel Wallace

The spectacle of a man of draft age, undeniably husky and fit for active service, cosily situated behind a counter during working hours, and when off duty enjoying all the privileges, and often wearing much of the insignia, of an officer when he had not been through the training and made the sacrifices to entitle him to such treatment, has more than once galled the feelings of the enlisted man, who, far less comfortably quartered, enjoying no privileges, knew that sooner or later he and his officers would have to take the chances "up there" while the "Y. M." man would remain in comparative safety behind.
— from The Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 8, 1918 The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 by United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces

In America before the war, as we have seen, wealth had been distributed with a general effect of evenness never previously known in a large community.
— from Equality by Edward Bellamy