Ivos daqui fingidas, ivos duras Linguas e condiçoes: pura clareza Saya de claros peitos, e almas puras.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

la soeur de Monsieur de Crussol Le sieur de Montluc charge davoir intelligence avec le Roy despaigne pour mettre en ses mains le pais de Guienne de quoy il reste accuse envers le Roy de France et la Royne sa mere par le sieur de Peres en Quercy et son filz le sieur de Marchassetel beau frere du sieur de Crussol qui ont envoye tout expres ung gentilhomme en court a ceste fin instruit de lettres et memoires par lesquelles est porte que le seneschal de Quercy a dit ausdits sieurs de Peres
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

The Altrurian was delighted with the hotel; and in fact it did look extremely pretty, with its branching piazzas full of well-dressed people, and its green lawns where the children were playing.
— from A Traveler from Altruria: Romance by William Dean Howells

Mendacity on commission stooped in their high shoulders, shambled in their unsteady legs, buttoned and pinned and darned and dragged their clothes, frayed their button-holes, leaked out of their figures in dirty little ends of tape and issued from their mouths in alcoholic breathings.”
— from Non-Criminal Prisons English Debtor's Prisons and Prisons of War; French War Prisons; American War Prisons with References to Those of Other Lands by Arthur Griffiths

The form of Fall-leaf was taken from the ground, and cast with violence into a cavern, or "sink-hole," about twenty feet in depth, large enough at its bottom to contain the bodies of a dozen men, but, unlike the majority of such old water-escapes to caverns in the bowels of the earth, the mouth of this hole was so small that it was quite difficult for the passage of a single form.
— from The Border Spy; or, The Beautiful Captive of the Rebel Camp A Story of the War by Harry Hazelton

I had almost forgotten—I sent Flaggs after an envelope which I fancied I dropped last evening," answered the lawyer.
— from Mortmain by Arthur Cheney Train

De incolis Ægypti ac Nilo flumine; item de Libya exteriore .
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt

Kaze, you see, I wus fetch up mighty gran’ By de bes’ folks in de lan’;— En dey teach me how ter do Work fo’ ladies rich ez you, ’Fo’e de wah.
— from Darkey Ways in Dixie by Margaret A. (Margaret Alice) Richard