When the election came he got every vote in New Salem except three.(6)
— from Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

Nothing more in this country was ever known of the fate of Lucy Brandon; and as her circle of acquaintances was narrow, and interest in her fate existed vividly in none save a few humble breasts, conjecture was never keenly awakened, and soon cooled into forgetfulness.
— from Paul Clifford — Volume 07 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Insulam Sio vbi crescit gummi mastix lucidum: Inde ad Insulam Pathmos Sancti Ioannis Euangelistæ, et ad Ephesum vbi idem noscitur sepultus: hanc totam minorem Asiam tenent nunc pessimi Turci, et eam appellant minorem Turciam.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

Si vero confessus noluerit consentire, ut quod dictum est reveletur episcopo vel ejus vicario, Ipse nihilominus sacerdos requirat consilium non specificando personam a peritis & Deum timentibus, qualiter sit ulterius procedendum.’
— from Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition by Arthur Stanley Turberville

Elsie Venner is not sensual, and sensuality is the leading trait of the human-serpent nature.
— from The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland

Almost every vestige is now swept away.
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1 by Edmund Flagg