Hobbes' use of emphasis and his eccentric punctuation and construction seem then to work.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

However, her extreme poverty, and chiefly her egregious vanity (somewhat of which hath been already hinted to the reader), gave him some little hope, that, notwithstanding all her avowed tenderness, she might in time be brought to content herself with a fortune superior to her expectation, and which might indulge her vanity, by setting her above all her equals.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Mr. Snodgrass and Mr. Winkle had each performed a compulsory somerset with remarkable agility, when the first object that met the eyes of the latter as he sat on the ground, staunching with a yellow silk handkerchief the stream of life which issued from his nose, was his venerated leader at some distance off, running after his own hat, which was gambolling playfully away in perspective.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Herculi eadem porta ad coelum patuit, qui magnam generis humani partem perdidit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Note 44 ( return ) [ Before he enters Persia, Ammianus copiously describes (xxiii.
— 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

The purpose for which Lord Osselstone had undertaken this journey being thus accomplished, though in a very unexpected manner, he and Augustus immediately prepared to return to England, both anxious to be introduced as relatives to Adelaide, whom Augustus recollected having admired when he only knew her as the ward of Mrs. Sullivan, but for whom he now already felt the partiality of a cousin; and his description of her elegant person and captivating manners prepossessed Lord Osselstone in her favour, even more than the exaggerated, though sincere encomiums of Father Dermoody.
— from Manners: A Novel, Vol 3 by Madame Panache

They were soon deeply engaged in Scottish history, following the current of events which closed the reign and life of Mary; and though Miss Ponsonby contended that her existence proved a course of wicked efforts to gain the English crown, and raise rebellion in her cousin's [22] dominions, Christobelle defended the beautiful captive, with all the rhetoric of youthful enthusiasm.
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 3 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

"I asked Mrs. Holland if she had ever played at conundrums of this kind.
— from The Unpopular Review Vol. I January-June 1914 by Various

In his every-day living he was decidedly an Eskimo; but of long winter evenings, reading or studying Skipper Ed's books, at home in Abel's cabin, or in one of the easy chairs in Skipper Ed's cabin, when Skipper Ed explained to him and Jimmy the things they read, Bobby was as far removed from his Eskimo personality as could be.
— from Bobby of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace

The Violins belonging to his early period are chiefly of the Amatese character.
— from The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart

He has, moreover, left behind quite enough of renown, could he lay claim to none other, to be found in the following tribute from the pen of Lord Byron:—‘I have met George Colman occasionally, and thought him extremely pleasant and convivial.
— from A Walk from London to Fulham by Thomas Crofton Croker

Ay, ay, who would know him to be Sir Keith Macleod?" "He wants me to go and see him; and I suppose I have no time to go home first—" "Here is the list of the trains, mem," said Hamish, eagerly, producing a certain card.
— from Macleod of Dare by William Black

PANDARUS' house Enter PANDARUS and CRESSIDA PANDARUS.
— from The History of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare

As they are wondering about his coming, the door opens and he enters pale and constrained.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas