"You're no 'bleached blonde' either, Poll!" laughed Eleanor, rubbing her sleeve across her face and looking at the soot in amusement.
— from Polly of Pebbly Pit by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

It is a chronicle indispensable for every public library, every reference library, the shelf of every individual concerned with the story of California.
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark

What did that truculent young ruffian want with Rupert?" Erebus paused, looking earnestly round to the horizon for inspiration; then she dashed at the awkward subject with commendable glibness: "It was a pheasant in Great Deeping wood," she said.
— from The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson

Etiamsi non negemus Christo jam ad dextrum Dei sedenti subjecta esse omnia, inimicosque ipsi subjici tanquam scabellum pedum suorum, &c. Proprie tamen dicitur Rex suae ecclesiae, uti etiam ecclesia, proprie loquendo ejus regnum est.
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

1796 Voyage au Japon, par le cap de Bonne-Espérance, les îles de la Sonde, etc., par Thunberg, traduit, rédigé (sur la version anglaise), etc., par Langlès, et revu, quant à l’histoire naturelle , par Lamarck.
— from Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

Capre cochi cera ꝓ vna libra de fero vechio ne donorono quindici de cera et peuere lõgo et rotondo JL peuere longo he como q e lle gatelle q̃ fanno li nizolle
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 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

Sedum crenulatum, Hk. f. & T. Sedum himalense, Don Epilobium palustre, L. Epilobium reticulatum, C. B. Cl. Pleurospermum Hookeri, C. B. Cl.
— from Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921 by A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston