In Nôtre Dame de Chartres, its beak is at the ear of Pope Gregory the Great.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

I think I had; I never did deny it.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Ispáti nu diri dapit kay nahū́g ang ákung sinsíyu, Shine your flashlight over here because I dropped my money.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Unsay istaran (istahan) nátug dúgay dinhi?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[Pg 112] The title of the poem is no doubt derived from the allusion to the Sun at the beginning of strophes 39-45.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

"Oh! he is not dead, Dr. Bruce, is he?"
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

The place Was knee deepe where she sat; her careles Tresses A wreathe of bull-rush rounded; about her stucke Thousand fresh water flowers of severall cullors, That me thought she appeard like the faire Nimph That feedes the lake with waters, or as Iris Newly dropt downe from heaven; Rings she made Of rushes that grew by, and to 'em spoke The prettiest posies: 'Thus our true love's tide,' 'This you may loose, not me,' and many a one:
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

All the time I was getting ready I never dared drive past W.O.‘s place for fear the sight of that fine house of his would put me in the swithers again.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Then turning to Hales, I added, “In the record it is, I notice, distinctly directed ‘First find the old man who lives at the house by the crossways.’
— from As We Forgive Them by William Le Queux

The speciality of their employment is no doubt disadvantageous with respect to breadth and coherence of ideas.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte

Forrain semblance belied dhe adoptives, oblige , marine , machine , magazine , fatigue , intrigue , antique , and shire ; til Londoners began to' treat dhem az natives ov Ingland; not dreaming dhat dheir essence cood not here be prezerved, but in dhe guize ov oblege , marene , mashene , maggazene , fategue , intregue , anteke (or anteek , mareen , and dhe rest,) joined by legue , twegue , and shere : hwich last, dho dhus sevvered from sheer and shear , boath coincident in sound, waz beguinning, in dhe
— from A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy by James Elphinston

"But I say," continued her mother, seriously, "that we are not permitted to amuse ourselves with such child's play, when the welfare of one of whom we have taken charge is at stake; and if you had bestowed upon Nanette an education which would make her disdain the humble career to which she is no doubt destined, you would have rendered her a very mischievous service."
— from Popular Tales by Madame (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline) Guizot

Classification is inductive in nature, division deductive.
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair

'Ita Cornua Ammonis,' quæ ex nautilorum numero habeantur, passim et forma et magnitudine (nam et pedali diametro aliquando reperiuntur) ab omnibus illis naturis discrepare dicunt, quas præbet mare.
— from Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley

II No daffodil doth blow
— from Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

We may gather, perhaps, the great results; but we can, I believe, in no degree divine the motives, and most of the details are lost.
— from Leonora D'Orco: A Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

at Eton and Christ Church; is 2d Lieut, in North Devon Dragoons, and patron of one living.
— from The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie