Again, a very fine article must be replaced by one of equivalent value, and not by several minor ones, though intermediate gifts may be given to mark time before the real repayment takes place.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

MAILLARD, Usher, at siege of Bastille, Insurrection of Women, drum, Champs Elysees, entering Versailles, addresses National Assembly there, signs Decheance petition, in September Massacres.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

“And I’m not expecting visitors, and nothing has happened, but I beg you to go away.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[ Squalida sed quoniam facies, neglectaque cultû Cæsaries; multisque malis lassata senectus Eripuit solitam effigiem: vetus accipe nomen; Roma vocor.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Vocat ingenti Clamore Cithseron Taygetique canes, domitrixque Epidaurus equorum: Et vox assensu nemorum ingeminata remugit.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The polling places should be so numerous as to be within easy reach of every voter, and no expenses of conveyance, at the cost of the candidate, should be tolerated under any pretext.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

The coverings of the internal hernia, Plate 34, though not derived exactly from the same locality as those which invest the cord and the external variety, are, nevertheless, but different parts of the same structures; these are, 1st, the peritonaeum, G, which forms its sac; 2nd, the pubic part of the fascia transversalis; 3rd, the conjoined tendon itself, or (according as the hernia may occur further from the mesial line) the cremaster, which, in common with the internal oblique and transverse muscles, terminates in this tendon; 4th, the external spermatic fascia, derived from the margins of the external ring; 5th, the superficial fascia and integuments.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Certe vix credam, et bona fide fateare Aratine, te no amasse adeo vehementer; si enim vere amasses, nihil prius aut potius optasses, quam amatae mulieri placere.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

As Bertha was renowned for her spinning, she naturally was regarded as the special patroness of that branch of female industry, and was said to flit through the streets of every village, at nightfall, during the twelve nights between Christmas and January 6, peering into every window to inspect the spinning of the household.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

St. John, at Savoy, an hospital for relief of one hundred poor people, founded by Henry VII., suppressed by Edward VI.: again new founded, endowed, and furnished by Queen Mary, and so remaineth.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Neat Cases for loading the Numbers of "N. & Q." until the completion of each Volume are now ready, price 1 s. 6 d., and may be had by order of all booksellers and newsmen.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 122, February 28, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

It was a marvel to me how silently and actively both men had slipped from view right under the noses of the police in Oxford Street, who are ever vigilant at night.
— from The Place of Dragons: A Mystery by William Le Queux

Monsieur Cherfeuil opening the door at this moment, and hearing a great noise, and not perceiving him who ought to have repressed it, for the boys standing round what remained of him with us, it was concealed from the worthy pedagogue, who exclaimed, “Vat a noise be here!
— from Rattlin the Reefer by Edward Howard

It was not a flattering summing up of a relationship, nor did its grim humor hide any more indulgent version of our economic value as neighbors.
— from The Survey, Volume XXX, Number 1, April 5, 1913 by Various

The assurances of sitters that they know they did not move the table are equally valueless; and nothing but objective tests will suffice.
— from Fact and Fable in Psychology by Joseph Jastrow

The economists had been praising the policy of idleness in naval construction, claiming first that we were at peace and did not need to spend money on expensive vessels and, next, that naval construction was in an experimental stage and that we should let the European nations go to the expense of the experiments, as they were doing, and when some result had been reached, take advantage of it, instead of wasting our own money in work that would have to be thrown away in a few years.
— from Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White

Mr. George Meredith, when he employed verse and not prose, used a considerable number of odd measures unusually rhythmed, as well as others perfectly adjusted to the demands of the ear.
— from Historical Manual of English Prosody by George Saintsbury

Fray Domingo was in mortal fear lest his kinsmen should slay him on the road, and it was deemed necessary to enter Valladolid at night to avoid lapidation by the mob.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea