She had seated herself and taken up a fan for some time before she said, in her quiet guttural— "Dear Dodo, do throw off that cap.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Syndicat général de défense du café et des produits coloniaux.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

She never alluded to a certain person, but she thought of him a good deal, dreamed dreams more than ever, and once Jo, rummaging her sister's desk for stamps, found a bit of paper scribbled over with the words, 'Mrs. John Brooke', whereat she groaned tragically and cast it into the fire, feeling that Laurie's prank had hastened the evil day for her.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

“About a tousand or two tousand year ago, me cannot tell to a year or two, as can neider write nor read, dere was a great what you call—a volution among de gypsy; for dere was de lord gypsy in dose days; and dese lord did quarrel vid one anoder about de place; but de king of de gypsy did demolish dem all, and made all his subject equal vid each oder; and since dat time dey have agree very well; for dey no tink of being king, and may be it be better for dem as dey be; for me assure you it be ver troublesome ting to be king, and always to do justice; me have often wish to be de private gypsy when me have been forced to punish my dear friend and relation; for dough we never put to death, our punishments be ver severe.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Rhasis, de gemmis, dianthos, diamoscum dulce et amarum, electuarium conciliatoris, syrup.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

N. dīves , G. dīvitis , D. dīvitī , Ac.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

This document reads: “Rispondendo il P.r̄e Cosmografo Coronelli alii di lei questiti per la fabbrica delli globi, gli dice, che il farà tanto grandi, quanta sarà la capacità della stanza, e bisognando fabbricare anco una stanza dentro del Globo, resta solo che il Principe che la desidera, habbia curiosità e volontà do spendere; limitandosi però il P. Cosmografo alia grandezza di Globi di diametro di quindici piedi, dice, che per il solo pagamento di materiali, e degli Artifici, si ricercano ducento doppie; che per delineare la Geografia, scriveri, collocarvi le stelle, ed assegnare il luogo alle figure vi vorrà di spesa quattrocento doppie.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

I re-read my Shakespeare in the light of Booth's eyes, in the sound of his magic voice, and when the season ended, the city grew dark, doubly dark for me.
— from A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

Samuel D. Porter , Esq., N. Y. Rev. M. M. G. Dana , D. D., Minn. Rev. H. W. Beecher , N. Y. Gen. O. O. Howard , Oregon.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 8, August, 1880 by Various

La Galerie du duc d'Orléans au Palais-Royal , 2 volumes in folio; 2.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

Those grave diggers, Doubt, Distrust, They will lower him to the dust.
— from Maurine and Other Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

And then you go down, down, down, into everlasting blackness."
— from The Old Dominion by Mary Johnston

“S’pose we near and de ship go down, den de oder men get on de raft and sink her.”
— from The South Sea Whaler by William Henry Giles Kingston

The aptness of the clavichord for yielding to these deviations from the intonation of the intervals in which it is tuned, combined with its aptness for producing with great delicacy different degrees of loudness, constitute the principal charms of the instrument, and sufficiently account for the love which our old classical composers,—Handel, Bach, etc.,—bore for the clavichord.
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 2 (of 2) by Carl Engel

Und das ist es eben, woher uns die Gefahr kam, das ist im letzten Ende auch der Grund, der uns den Krieg gebracht hat: England , [1] das Volk zur See, die Weltmacht, ist eingeholt von uns Jüngeren, und es gibt Dinge, durch die wir ihm vorangehen.
— from The Lusitania's Last Voyage Being a narrative of the torpedoing and sinking of the R. M. S. Lusitania by a German submarine off the Irish coast, May 7, 1915 by Lauriat, Charles Emelius, Jr.