But if you have followed recent events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his wedding?”
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

That he could cubiculorum obductas foras recludere et secreta cordium penetrare , which [388] Cyprian desired, open doors and locks, shoot bolts, as Lucian's Gallus did with a feather of his tail: or Gyges' invisible ring, or some rare perspective glass, or Otacousticon , which would so multiply species, that a man might hear and see all at once (as [389] Martianus Capella's Jupiter did in a spear which he held in his hand, which did present unto him all that was daily done upon the face of the earth), observe cuckolds' horns, forgeries of alchemists, the philosopher's stone, new projectors, &c., and all those works of darkness, foolish vows, hopes, fears and wishes, what a deal of laughter would it have afforded?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For recent excavations see Class. Review , 1893, p. 381; 1894, p. 129 (vases with subjects of Kanake and Theseus with the ring). 275 .
— from History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2) by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters

Les François repoussés et sans chef firent leur retraite sur Briançon."— Biographie Universelle , art. Belleisle.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2 by George Warburton

“Father,” replied Edmee, somewhat coldly, “I shall marry none but him.”
— from Mauprat by George Sand

Noveritis nos vidisse, tenuisse et diligenter inspexisse quosdam patentes litteras excellentissimi principis et domini clare memorie Sancti Ludovici Dei gratia Francorum regis, ejus sigillo cereo viridi et filis sericis viridibus et rubeis in pendenti sigillatas, inter cetera continentes quoddam capitulum cujus de verbo ad verbum tenor sequitur: “In hunc modum est sciendum quod immobilia que nobis et successoribus nostris advenient de heresibus et faidamentis hereticorum debemus nos et successores nostri et tenemur vendere vel alienare infra annum, talibus personis que facient episcopo et ecclesie Albiensi et successoribus suis servicium et alia que tenebantur facere eis veteres possessores pro rebus iisdem; si vero nos vel successores nostri non vendiderimus vel alienaverimus infra annum immobilia hujusmodi, episcopus Albiensis vel successores sui in secundo anno et in tertio accipiet auctoritate propria illa immobilia et possidebit
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

It seems evident, then, that all the phenomena of animal magnetism have been from an early period known to mankind under the various forms of divinatory ecstasy, demonopathy or witchmania, theomania, or fanatical religious excitation, spontaneous catalepsy, and somnambulism.
— from The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various

For record evidence, see Chapter V. 73 .
— from The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles