Lovely flowered ribbons, dainty bits of silk and lace, curious scraps of Japanese and Chinese embroidery, embossed leather and rich brocades, all these found their way into the Cottagers' work-bags.
— from The Adopting of Rosa Marie (A Sequel to Dandelion Cottage) by Carroll Watson Rankin

glasse mesure shewynge mirouer mesure monstrant lenyng lovynge fulfilled appuis amoureus assouuie rose redde well smellyng rose rouge redolente that can nat vade yonge jolie inmarcessible jeune jolie amonge chosen exellente entre eslytes exellente for ever more be ye blessyd.
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés

Addison, Joseph , a celebrated English essayist, studied at Oxford, became Fellow of Magdalen, was a Whig in politics, held a succession of Government appointments, resigned the last for a large pension; was pre-eminent among English writers for the purity and elegance of his style, had an abiding, refining, and elevating influence on the literature of the country; his name is associated with the Tatler, Spectator , and Guardian , as well as with a number of beautiful hymns (1672-1749).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Jerrold and Colin, even Eliot, now that he was grown-up, felt it.
— from Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair

The chief Latins, Hilary, Jerome, Augustine, &c., exhibit either qui or quod : Cyril of Alexandria (for so we must conclude both from manuscripts and his context) 431 , Epiphanius ( twice ), Theodore of Mopsuestia (in Latin) 432 , and others of less weight, or whose language is less [pg 394] direct, are cited in critical editions of the N. T. in support of a relative; add to which that θεός is not quoted by Fathers (e.g. Cyprian, p. 35; Bentleii Critica Sacra, p. 67) in many places where it might fairly be looked for; though this argument must not be pushed too far.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Constantly Grey manœuvred to keep his back to the moon, and just as constantly Erskine easily kept him where the light shone fairly on both.
— from Erskine Dale—Pioneer by Fox, John, Jr.