A clerk was immediately sent to the criminal lieutenant, praying him to command the advocate to bring before him, in three days, the plea of one Anami, alias Pogomas, alias Possano, the said plea being against Jacques Casanova, commonly called the Chevalier de Seingalt.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Canon O’Hanlon put the Blessed Sacrament back into the tabernacle and genuflected and the choir sang Laudate Dominum omnes gentes and then he locked the tabernacle door because the benediction was over and Father Conroy handed him his hat to put on and crosscat Edy asked wasn’t she coming but Jacky Caffrey called out: —O, look, Cissy!
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

As Jos came creaking and puffing up the final stairs, and was speechless when he got to the landing, and began to wipe his face and then to look for No. 92, the room where he was directed to seek for the person he wanted, the door of the opposite chamber, No. 90, was open, and a student, in jack-boots and a dirty schlafrock, was lying on the bed smoking a long pipe; whilst another student in long yellow hair and a braided coat, exceeding smart and dirty too, was actually on his knees at No. 92, bawling through the keyhole supplications to the person within.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

And through this life just caught comes the truth she chants. )
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

la Resurrection du Peuple: Imprime a Jerusalem, &c. &c.—See Montgaillard, i. 407. )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Les abus sont nombreux, on vend des choses qui n'existent pas - je considère cela comme du vol - c'est la raison pour laquelle les gens ne sont pas très confiants dans ce type de commerce.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

At ten o'clock the church being nearly filled, M. J. Chasseur commenced the prayers; a calm that succeeded was of short duration.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

but Jesus Christ could not do so, as he was a sacrifice for sin; he died for sin, he was made a curse for us.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

Nothing I could say about it being a joke could convince him.
— from The Motor Girls by Margaret Penrose

"Do you know Jesus Christ?" continued Spangenberg.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

The first day of June came clad in the fullness of summer.
— from Pharais; and, The Mountain Lovers by William Sharp

Petrum, tyranne, quid catenis obruis, Jubesque condi carceris nigro specu?
— from Hymni ecclesiae by John Henry Newman

The great jewel “Consistency” cannot be bought with money.
— from Treading the Narrow Way by Robert Emmet Barrett

Orange was fighting from Antwerp as his headquarters, the provincial representatives, with Brussels as their centre, were howling for help from any source; the Protestant faction called John Casimir, Count Palatine, to their assistance, while the Catholics appealed to the Duke d’Alençon, and both put in an appearance, the latter seizing Maubeuge and working thence into the interior, while the former defeated Don John in a pitched battle and drove him back to Namur, where in a few months he died of chagrin and a broken heart, after making his nephew Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, his successor in the field.
— from Heart of Europe by Ralph Adams Cram

II Poems / on / Various Subjects , /By S. T. Coleridge , / Late of Jesus College, Cambridge. /
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The order was founded at different times by Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Cyrus, Solomon, Zoroaster, Confucious, Thothmes, and Buddha.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce