For my part, I 'll enlist on neither side, Until I see both sides for once agreeing.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

"Gregorius septimus Vratislao Bohemorum duci, &c. Quia nobilitas tua postulat, quòd secundū Sclauonicā linguā apud vos diuinum celebrari annueremus officium, scias nos huic petitioni tuæ nequaquàm posse fauere, ex hoc nempe se voluentibus liquet, non immeritò sacram scripturam optimo Deo placuisse quibusdam locis esse occultam; ne si ad liquidum cunctis pateret, fortè vilesceret, & subiaceret despectui, aut [Page 233] prauè intellecta à mediocribus in errorem induceret.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

Under such conditions particles located equidistant or nearly so between such regions, move only very slowly or not at all, the pull upon the film being nearly or quite equal.
— from Ameboid movement by Asa A. (Asa Arthur) Schaeffer

And now, my bairn, just try on these stockings; they will be cooler for spring, and I don't know if they are long enough or not,' she wound up.
— from A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends by May Baldwin

Leaves entire or nearly so, 1-3 cm.
— from The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Henry A. (Henry Allan) Gleason

About nine miles from the north-east angle of the wall of Nineveh, in a direction a very little east of north, stands the ruin known as Khorsabad, from a small village which formerly occupied its summit—the scene of the labors of M. Botta, who was the first to disentomb from among the mounds of Mesopotamia the relics of an Assyrian palace.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

When you are there contrive to slip this little piece of paper between the bed-clothes, saying, in an undertone, as you place it there— Let every one now soundly sleep, But Cannetella awake shall keep."
— from Stories from the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile

"It's all very well laying everything on Napoleon," she said.
— from Two Royal Foes by Eva Annie Madden