Just opposite, sad Nilus opens wide
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

I 'll tell you why I say so, for 't is just One should not rail without a decent cause: There was an Irish lady, to whose bust I ne'er saw justice done, and yet she was A frequent model; and if e'er she must Yield to stern Time and Nature's wrinkling laws, They will destroy a face which mortal thought Ne'er compass'd, nor less mortal chisel wrought.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Besides the ministers and underlings, Who must be courteous to the accredited Diplomatists of rather wavering kings, Until their royal riddle 's fully read, The very clerks,—those somewhat dirty springs Of office, or the house of office, fed By foul corruption into streams,—even they Were hardly rude enough to earn their pay: And insolence no doubt is what they are Employ'd for, since it is their daily labour, In the dear offices of peace or war; And should you doubt, pray ask of your next neighbour, When for a passport, or some other bar To freedom, he applied (a grief and a bore), If he found not his spawn of taxborn riches, But Juan was received with much 'empressement:'- These phrases of refinement I must borrow From our next neighbours' land, where, like a chessman, There is a move set down for joy or sorrow Not only in mere talking, but the press.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Judging under this impression, I did not hestitate to declare my full conviction, that the consummate judgment of Shakespeare, not only in the general construction, but in all the details, of his dramas, impressed me with greater wonder, than even the might of his genius, or the depth of his philosophy.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Further, neither presupposes a judgement of sense nor a judgement logically determined, but a judgement of reflection.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Jamque oblita sui, nec sobria divitiis mens
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Perhaps I can get a job on some newspaper," he thought, and then his mind turned to the girl with whom he was to have spent this evening and again he was half angry at the turn of events that had prevented his going to her.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

3629 Or Joppa of Scripture, now called Yâfa or Jaffa.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

American Journal of Science , November, 1876.
— from American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology by Thomas Henry Huxley

Sampson, Dr. John, on Shelta (note), 207 –208.
— from The Gypsy's Parson: his experiences and adventures by Hall, George, rector of Ruckland, Lincolnshire

"Your Grace, it is this lady who is to do me the great honour of becoming my Lady Dunstanwolde" Sir John Oxon stood near the doorway, striving to smile, but biting his lip; here and there his Grace vaguely observed that there seemed new talk among the moving couples and small gathered groups.
— from His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett

By marriage the race is a jumble of Spanish, natives, Italians, and northern Europeans.
— from The Amazing Argentine: A New Land of Enterprise by John Foster Fraser

In commerce and trade, the assizes held not so strictly in relation to religion and national descent; for whether Syrian or Greek, Jew or Samaritan, Nestorian or Saracen, they were still men, as well as the Franks, and must pay or serve according to judgment rendered, just as in the burghers' court, and hence it was determined that the court of commerce should apply the assizes of the burghers' court.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various

If they did not do justice on so notorious a criminal they would never be trusted any more.
— from Roman life in the days of Cicero by Alfred John Church

CHAPTER IV THE SECOND SITTING On the following night Valentine sat waiting for Julian's arrival in his drawing-room, which looked out upon Victoria Street, whereas the only window of the tentroom opened upon some waste ground where once a panorama of Jerusalem, or some notorious city, stood, and where building operations were now being generally carried on.
— from Flames by Robert Hichens

"Thoroughly a woman's decision," said Felix laughing, "or shall I rather say: a judgement of Solomon?" "No, Sir painter.
— from Klytia: A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath

They were a rowdy, sociable, good-hearted crew, addicted to what they called "jags" on Saturday nights.
— from A Knight on Wheels by Ian Hay