Liuery and seisen , sb. phr. erron.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Nay Sir Peter—He who once lays aside suspicion—— SIR PETER.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The sponger, like a sequent sheep, Pursuing through the water deep, Into the same hole plunges Himself, his rider, and the sponges.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

With that came in the lady of the lake, and said, “Sir, put not on this mantle till thou hast seen more; and in nowise let it be put upon thee, or any of thy knights, till ye have made the bringer of it first put it on her.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

The sums of gold and silver, which had been painfully collected, or liberally transmitted, for the payment of the troops, were intercepted by the avarice of the commanders; discharges, or, at least, exemptions, from the military service, were publicly sold; the distress of the soldiers, who were injuriously deprived of their legal and scanty subsistence, provoked them to frequent desertion; the nerves of discipline were relaxed, and the highways were infested with robbers.
— 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

pero usted llegará antes si se pone 5 a ello.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

palatun n 1 plate, 9″ to 12″ in diameter, made of enamel-coated tinplate, round and deep like a shallow soup plate.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He was a bright young lad, and showed some promise of rising to heights as a slacker.
— from Tales of St. Austin's by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Like a shadow she passed across the grass, out of the garden gate, down the road under the black dripping trees.
— from Beyond by John Galsworthy

Then his mother would go likewise, and see St. Peter’s church, and the Pope, and all the wonders of Rome, and have her share in all the spiritual blessings which were to be obtained (so men thought then) at Rome alone.
— from The Hermits by Charles Kingsley

All high or noble emotion or thought are thus rendered physically impossible, while the mind exults in what is very like a strictly sensual pleasure.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

Canute's tower was still left, a squat solid piece of masonry, with enormously thick walls and tiny lancet windows.
— from The Luckiest Girl in the School by Angela Brazil

Wherefore since Fortune hath prevailed, by way that she hath shown, Whither she calleth, let us turn: methinks the way but short To brother-land of Eryx leal and safe Sicanian port,
— from The Æneids of Virgil, Done into English Verse by Virgil

He will not leave a soul so precious in darkness.
— from The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Ill-nature, like a spider, sucks poison from the sweetest flower.
— from Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson