our trio of pests still invade and obstruct us on all occasions, these are the Musquetoes eye knats and prickley pears, equal to any three curses that ever poor Egypt laiboured under, except the Mahometant yoke.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

pettei te tautên kai apolauei prostitheisa pan ex autês to chrêston tois heautês chitôsi, ta men entera teleôs homoiôsei ton prosphynta chymon, hôsautôs de kai to hêpar.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Fruits of various kinds, apples, peaches, plums, etc., do remarkably well.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV March, 1903-December, 1903 by Oregon Historical Society

Kythaos ad prælium parauerunt, et castra mouentes, eorum terram intrauerunt.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt

The Yellow Knight and Prince Pompa exchanged an uneasy glance.
— from The Wishing Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson

i mea no ke Alii e uluhua ai, alaila, hele mai e nana ia kakou, alaila, pela paha e ike ai kakou ia Laieikawai."
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole

In the Act of Parliament which sanctioned the revision the reason was given as follows:— “That there had been divers doubts raked about the manner of the ministration of the Service, rather by the curiosity of the ministers and mistakers than of any other worthy cause; and that for the better explanation of that, and for the greater perfection of the Service is some places where it was fit to make the Prayer and fashion of Service more earnest, and fit to stir Christian people to the true honouring of Almighty God, therefore it had been by the command of the King and Parliament perused, explained, and made more perfect.”
— from The New Departure; Or, Thoughts for Loyal Churchmen by Edward Hoare

M. de Saint-Aignan had executed the commission with which the king had intrusted him for La Valliere, as we have already seen in one of the preceding chapters; but, whatever his eloquence might have been, he did not succeed in persuading the young girl that she had in the king a protector powerful enough for her under any combination of circumstances, and that she had no need of any one else in the world when the king was on her side.
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas