Still science, trifles, fancies light as air, I hold, should mingle in a bill of fare, Each giving each its due relief; As, where the gifts of Flora fall, On different flowers we see Alight the busy bee, Educing sweet from all.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Pantagruel had with him Panurge, Friar John des Entomeures, alias of the Funnels, Epistemon, Gymnast, Eusthenes, Rhizotome, Carpalin, cum multis aliis, his ancient servants and domestics; also Xenomanes, the great traveller, who had crossed so many dangerous roads, dikes, ponds, seas, and so forth, and was come some time before, having been sent for by Panurge.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

su buen juicio al nombrar en primera línea nuestros ferrocarriles,—dijo el doctor Mendoza, abogado argentino.—Entre nosotros, [17] las concesiones ferrocarrileras están garantizadas en cierto modo
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

7. "Know thou that thine old enemy altogether striveth to hinder thy pursuit after good, and to deter thee from every godly exercise, to wit, the contemplation of the Saints, the pious remembrance of My passion, the profitable recollection of sin, the keeping of thy own heart, and the steadfast purpose to grow in virtue.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

] Is not something of the same kind found in the following sally of Figaro's (though here an attempt is perhaps made to suggest the image of an animal rather than that of a thing): "Quel homme est-ce?—C'est un beau, gros, court, jeune vieillard, gris pommele, ruse, rase, blase, qui guette et furette, et gronde et geint tout a la fois."
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

She thought for a moment and said, "Dear father, I wish for eleven girls exactly like myself in face, figure, and size.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Nay, the former calls for even greater energy and greater devotion than the latter.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He was about six feet high, of rather slender form, straight, and of a firm, elastic gait, even at the time of his election to the presidency, though then closely bordering on seventy.
— from The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 by Elmore Barce

Each one of us is a responsible life-centre in which God has expressed Himself, and we have to become moral beings, and a moral being is not machine-made—he must be grown; he is the product of evolution, and for the purpose of evolution he must emerge triumphant from resistance, as every flower, every grape, every grain of corn in this church has emerged triumphant.
— from Mystic Immanence, the Indwelling Spirit by Basil Wilberforce

The admission that there may be a few errors gives every man the right, nay it lays upon him the duty, of finding what those errors are.
— from Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden

The junks came up very slowly, towed by lines of coolies on the bank, and their late arrival frequently excited great exasperation among the troops, who were dependent upon them for their supplies.
— from With the Allies to Pekin: A Tale of the Relief of the Legations by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

By a false analogy, many adjectives that never formed adverbs in -e were freely used as adverbs in the age of Elizabeth: 'Thou didst it excellent ,' ' equal (for equally ) good,' ' excellent well.'
— from The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Alfred Ayres

Monsieur Auguste, that desperate ruffian exactly five feet tall who—when he could not keep from crying (one must think about one's wife or even one's child once or twice, I merely presume, if one loves them—" et ma femme est très gen-tille, elle est fran-çaise et très belle, très, très belle, vraiment; elle n'est fas comme moi, un pet-it homme laide, ma femme est grande et belle, elle sait bien lire et é-crire, vraiment; et notre fils … vous dev-ez voir notre pet-it fils….
— from The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings

Nerves to feet, one pair from each ganglionic enlargement.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Flag description: territorial flag is dark blue with a narrow red border on all four sides; centered is a red-bordered, pointed, vertical ellipse containing a beach scene, outrigger canoe with sail, and a palm tree with the word GUAM superimposed in bold red letters; US flag is the national flag Economy ::Guam Economy - overview: The economy depends largely on US military spending and tourism.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[1526] Very shortly before the suppression of the monastic orders, ‘Le respect pour le froc en général est poussé si loin, qu'on lui attribue une vertu préservative, même au-delà de la vie, quelque peu régulière qu'elle
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle