Such license is not unusual in ballad poetry.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

"GENERAL:—Our line is now unbroken from the Appomattox to Dinwiddie.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

[The term 'larboard' is never used at sea now, to signify the left hand; but was always used on the river in my time]} or 'steady—steady as you go.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

“Then,” I said, “you have been making a miscalculation, and the letter is not upon the premises, as you suppose.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

John H. Wigmore , Professor of Law in Northwestern University, Chicago . {ix} INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH VERSION.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Aristotle says that the cuttle-fish casts a gut out of her throat as long as a line, which she extends and draws back at pleasure; and as she perceives some little fish approach her she lets it nibble upon the end of this gut, lying herself concealed in the sand or mud, and by little and little draws it in, till the little fish is so near her that at one spring she may catch it.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

An afternoon tea in summer is the same, except that artificial light is never used, and the table is most often on a veranda.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The nature of the later offence of which Lamb accuses Lloyd is now unknown.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Charles Lamb

Plautus shows a large indulgence, not unmixed with a vein of saturnine humour, for these new ways on which both young and old were eagerly entering.
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

As he closed, he said, “I should not, Mr. Speaker, have returned to press this matter with so much earnestness, had not my views possessed the sanction and concurrence of my late departed friend, whose seat, I lament, is now unhappily vacant .”
— from Wit and Humor of the Bible: A Literary Study by Marion D. (Marion Daniel) Shutter

If the parents of the bridegroom be still alive, the newly-married couple reside with them; and it is the custom that, while sons and daughters are permitted to [ 221 ] speak to their parents, a similar license is not usually accorded to the sons’ wives.
— from Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces by H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) Lynch

For an individual with a badly working heart more and more restriction of the free life is necessary, until finally the only environment in which life is even tolerably harmonious is between blankets and within the walls of a room.
— from Disease and Its Causes by W. T. (William Thomas) Councilman

These considerations make it proper to offer a few remarks here about the nature of symbolical language, and on the question whether a book written in that language is necessarily unintelligible, or incapable of a plausible interpretation.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

Sometimes the acid liquor is not used for making precipitated phosphate, but is evaporated with animal charcoal and silica and then distilled to make phosphorus.
— from Animal Proteins by Hugh Garner Bennett

" She does not give the name of this strange "ffowle," but Lundy is no unfitting habitat for an amphibious creature which is at least as rare as the Dodo.
— from Lynton and Lynmouth: A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland by John Presland

"Why," said Sir Lucas, "I never used but three or four articles in all my practice."
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

Technology is almost magical, and ambition for a better life is now universal.
— from U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses by United States. Presidents