I just came round to ask Jeeves how he thought I looked.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Tituba’s husband, the Indian John, cunningly escaped by pretending to be one of the afflicted.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

F. W. Barthold, in ‘Die Geschichtlichen Personlichkeiten in J. Casanova’s Memoiren,’ 2 vols., 1846, had already examined about a hundred of Casanova’s allusions to well known people, showing the perfect exactitude of all but six or seven, and out of these six or seven inexactitudes ascribing only a single one to the author’s intention.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Qualla : A post-office and former trading station in Jackson county, on the border of the present East Cherokee reservation, hence sometimes called the Qualla reservation.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

To the left the North river with its far vista—nearer, three or four war-ships, anchor'd peacefully—the Jersey side, the banks of Weehawken, the Palisades, and the gradually receding blue, lost in the distance—to the right the East river—the mast-hemm'd shores—the grand obelisk-like towers of the bridge, one on either side, in haze, yet plainly defin'd, giant brothers twain, throwing free graceful interlinking loops high across the tumbled tumultuous current below—(the tide is just changing to its ebb)—the broad water-spread everywhere crowded—no, not crowded, but thick as stars in the sky—with all sorts and sizes of sail and steam vessels, plying ferry-boats, arriving and departing coasters, great ocean Dons, iron-black, modern, magnificent in size and power, fill'd with their incalculable value of human life and precious merchandise—with here and there, above all, those daring, careening things of grace and wonder, those white and shaded swift-darting fish-birds, (I wonder if shore or sea elsewhere can outvie them,) ever with their slanting spars, and fierce, pure, hawk-like beauty and motion—first-class New York sloop or schooner yachts, sailing, this fine day, the free sea in a good wind.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

In Japanese, chastity means not moral cleanliness without regard to sex, but only womanly duties.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The infant mortality in any city or place as compared with the whole number of deaths is justly considered a good barometer of its general sanitary condition.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

In July come gillyflowers of all varieties, musk-roses, the lime-tree in blossom, early pears, and plums in fruit, genitings, 478 codlins.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

The DHS would hold a closed, military tribunal to investigate "possible errors in judgment" committed after the attack on the Bay Bridge.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

A single clansman, posted with gun and claymore behind one of its jutting crags, might hold the road against a regiment.
— from Sketch-Book of the North by George Eyre-Todd

Miss Kate Barnard is justly called the “Joan of Arc of Oklahoma”.
— from The American Indian in the United States, Period 1850-1914 ... The Present Condition of the American Indian; His Political History and Other Topics; A Plea for Justice by Warren King Moorehead

"I did not lose myself," said Bessie; "I just came lost, I did not mean to do it."
— from Bessie in the City by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

The voice of the mother, who thinks it is Jesus Christ, is heard from the bed urging the daughter to let Him in.
— from Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell

committee appointed to impeach Judge Chase at the bar of the Senate, 174 ; committee to prepare articles of impeachment, 174 ; do.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

“What’s up now?” inquired Jan, coming in with a sort of rough swagger foreign to his habit, though Chips had observed it once or twice in the course of their confidential relations.
— from Fathers of Men by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Madame de Bois Arden is justly called one of the handsomest women in Paris.
— from Caught in the Net by Emile Gaboriau

de Mouteclaro publicum notarium Inquisitionis nostræ perquiri et inspici fecimus diligenter in libris et actis publicis Inquisitionis prædictæ, et invenimus quod anno Domini MCC quinquagesimo sexto Guiraldus de Altarippa quondam de Graoleto qui dicitur fuisse pater Guiraldi de Altarippa servientis armorum domini regis, confessus fuit in judicio coram Domino Bernardo de Monte-Atono tunc inquisitore hæreticæ pravitatis, quod viderat hæreticos et verba eorum audiverat.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea