Yours ever, S. VERNON.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Citius et efficacius suas vires exercet quam solent decocta ac diluta in quantitate multa, et magna cum assumentium molestia desumpta.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

This officer’s name is erroneously spelt “Vernon” in the Army Lists.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Canst thou truly look beyond even so vast a stretch of time as—” “Seven hundred years?
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

He examined narrowly all the symptoms of the trouble, and declared that, in order to check the disease as soon as possible, it was needful to use a certain drugged draught; but that it was so bitterly compounded, that the girl could never endure so violent a cure unless she submitted to be bound; since the stuff of the malady must be ejected from the very innermost tissues.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

It is surprising to find in Kant, the originator of modern "intellectualism," and in Rousseau, the great apostle of "sentiment," an essentially similar view on the nature and function of the will.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

These ships were made ready for the service as soon as Earl St. Vincent received advice from England that he was to be reinforced.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

[29] En ellos se vende vajilla de loza o porcelana, cubiertos, artículos de mesa y de cocina, tales como cacerolas, sartenes, pavas o peroles, ollas, calderas, cafeteras, teteras, aparte de convoyes para el aderezo de la ensalada.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The Earl of Errol, who died about 1460, was succeeded by his eldest son, V. Nicholas, second Earl of Errol.
— from The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood Translated from the French by Sir Gilbert Hay, Knight by Ramon Llull

p. 400); and, with The dullest leaf in this thick wood Quakes—conscious of thy power, compare the Lines written in Early Spring (vol. i. p. 268).
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

61 Thus encouraged, Elfrida said, very slowly and carefully, “‘Oh, Mouldiwarp’—I think it would rather be called that than mole, don’t you?—‘Oh, Mouldiwarp, do please come out and show us how to set about it’—that means the treasure.
— from The House of Arden: A Story for Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

In the Black Forest, in Baden, Germany, almost every valley shows a different style of costume, a different type of architecture, although in each separate valley every house is like every other and the costume, as well as the religion, is for every member of each separate community absolutely after the same pattern.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

especially Schulze , vollst.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg