The public and private edifices, that were founded for eternity, lie prostrate, naked, and broken, like the limbs of a mighty giant; and the ruin is the more visible, from the stupendous relics that have survived the injuries of time and fortune."
— 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

In the preparation in which the vitreous body (at this point at any rate) was not shrunken away from the retina, the fibre from each long pigment cell does not lie in a clearly defined space or “canal,” such as is usually described as a constant structure of the vitreous body.
— from The Cubomedusæ by Franklin Story Conant

In the Arte di vedere we find for example le pieghe longitudinali, la trombeggiata resurrezzione del Bello , &c.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

" A LBER , after quoting some of the Conformities , adds— " Et, ut paucis dicam, Christus nihil fecit quod non item Franciscus fecerit, et longe plura etiam.
— 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

In a letter to Secretary Windebanke written from Paris, in July, 1636, Lord Scudamore, after saying something about Lady Purbeck, adds: "She expects every day Sir Robert Howard here:" but this must have been mere gossip, for Scudamore cannot have been in the confidence of that fugitive from England, Lady Purbeck, as he was English Ambassador at Paris; moreover, he was a particular [pg 124] ally of Archbishop Laud, [93] therefore, not likely to have relations with an escaped prisoner of Laud's; although, as we shall presently find, another, although very different, friend of Laud took her part.
— from The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck: A Scandal of the XVIIth Century by Thomas Longueville

This is how it is accounted for by old people in Guernsey:— [531] “ Février dit à Janvier:—‘Si j’étais à votre pièche (place) je f’rais gelaïr (geler) les pots sus le faeu (feu) et les p’tits éfàns (enfants) aux seins de leurs mères’—et pour son ìmpudence i’ fut raccourchi (raccourci) de daeux jours, et Janvier fut aloigni (alongé).
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir