The description of the "ancien regime" in France, "a despotism tempered by epigrams," like most epigrammatic sentences, contains some truth, with much fiction.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

[92-8] ¡No pongas la mano en su caudal!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

she loved me; en she come out whah
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

The above lines have often been quoted as an example of virtuous audacity on the part of Racine, who, however, did not write them until the monarch who at one time did not hesitate to " se donner lui même en spectacle , &c.," had confessed his fault and vowed never to repeat it; so that instead of a lofty rebuke, the verses were in fact an indirect compliment neatly and skilfully conveyed.
— from History of the Opera from its Origin in Italy to the present Time With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of Europe by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

The introduction (ll. 249-269) of a Balade of twenty-one lines makes every succeeding couplet end with a line denoted by an odd number.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In support of this contention, I will state that salt in solution will break up and freely combine with lime, making equally soluble chlorids of lime which, of course, freely leach out in such a soil and carry down to unavailable depths these salts, invaluable as necessary bases to render assimilable most plant foods; and that, on this account, commercial manures containing large amounts of salt, are always to be used with much discretion, owing to the danger of impoverishing the supply of necessary lime in the soil.
— from The Cocoanut: With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines by William Scrugham Lyon

"When I stayed with you last May, either she came to the Lodge, or you went to Somervell Street, every day of the week.
— from The Splendid Folly by Margaret Pedler

Miliar eruption began to appear on the orbits November 13 and by November 21, there were a number of typical eruptions, with exudation on various parts of the body exactly like miliar eruptive sores commonly seen on legs of human cases.
— from Handbook of Medical Entomology by O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen

Other names of some note in the Anarchist world are Zo d'Axa (his real name is Galland), the former [Pg 211] editor of L'en Dehors , a literary adventurer who has wandered into the camp of every party; Sebastian Faure, the father of the Père Peinard and author of Le Manchinisme et ses Conséquences ; Bernard Lazare, Octave Mirbeau, François Guy, author of Les Préjugés et
— from Anarchism: A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by E. V. (Ernst Viktor) Zenker