In fine, after labours comparable to the Twelve of Hercules, our unconquerable Caron triumphs; regains his Lawsuit and Lawsuits; strips Reporter Goezman of the judicial ermine; covering him with a perpetual garment of obloquy instead:—and in regard to the Parlement Maupeou ( which he has helped to extinguish ), to Parlements of all kinds, and to French Justice generally, gives rise to endless reflections in the minds of men.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He wrote a Latin tract, "The Wandering Jew," entitled "Commentatio Historica de Judæo Immortali in qua haec Fabula examinatur et confutatur," Helmstadt, 1756; translated Abraham Jaegel's Catechism, "Lekah Tob" (Good Instruction), Brunswick, 1756; and gave a description of a rare copy of "Shulhan Aruk Eben haezer," to be found in manuscript in the City Library, Hamburg.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Our young Irish bards, John Eglinton censured, have yet to create a figure which the world will set beside Saxon Shakespeare’s
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

I have not had a creature call on me since the second week in January, except Charles Hayter, who had been calling much oftener than was welcome.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

Though he had never embraced more than the Jewish ethical code his fellow-Catholics, whenever they had smarted in person or by proxy under his exactions, spoke of him bitterly as an Irish Jew and an illiterate and saw divine disapproval of usury made manifest through the person of his idiot son.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

And this speech with other circumstances in Josephus, demonstrate how wise and how great a person Agrippa was, and why Josephus elsewhere calls him a most wonderful or admirable man, Contr.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The result of that trip was the delay of the boundary question and an immigration and settlement, that no Hudson’s Bay and Jesuit exterminating combinations have been able to overcome or drive from the country.
— from A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by W. H. (William Henry) Gray

[1103] Erat is Gerardus non parvi judicii et concilii homo, ideoque nobilibus ejus regionis plerisque carus.
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

will it be John Erskine come home to Dalrulzian?"
— from The Ladies Lindores, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Sir John earnestly conjured her not to lay "that flattering unction to her soul," but to convert the present vexation into an occasion of felicity, by making it the memorable and happy era of abandoning a practice which injured her fortune, her fame, her principles, and her peace.
— from Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More

"Joseph!" exclaimed Connor heavily.
— from The Garden of Eden by Max Brand

It was while he was thus “on the swither,” tremulously on the balance, that John Eck challenged him to dispute at Leipzig on the primacy and supremacy of the Roman Pontiff.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay