L'aria e finita, una sinfonia e dal copista (il quale e il mio padre) perche noi non la vogliamo dar via per copiarla; altrimente ella sarebbe rubata.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Costigan cut the other two phones out of circuit and spoke, his attention fixed upon some extremely distant point.
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

Russell's feelings underwent such excitement during the evening, that had not his sex preserved him from the simile, we should have compared him to a Sybil in the contortions of forthcoming inspiration.
— from Blue-Stocking Hall, (Vol. 2 of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

UNITARIAN The history of the Unitarian movement in Montreal dates from the year 1832, when on the 29th of July the Rev. David Hughes of England preached in the Union School Room at the corner of St. Sacrament and St. Nicholas streets the first Unitarian sermon ever delivered, it is believed, anywhere in Canada.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

[I] FOOTNOTES: [G] Fahrten und Schicksale eines Deutschen in Texas.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

The passage in the preface of the first Lyons edition, on which the sceptics rely, mentions the death “of him who has here imaged ( imaginé ) for us such elegant designs as much in advance of all hitherto issued as the paintings of Apelles or Zeuxis surpass those of the moderns;” but this is generally considered to refer to the engraver, Hans Lützelburger, who cut the designs in wood after Holbein’s drawing, and deserves all the praise for their extraordinarily skilful technical execution.
— from A History of Wood-Engraving by George Edward Woodberry