But the forms which enter into and go out of her are the likenesses of real existences modelled after their patterns in a wonderful and inexplicable manner, which we will hereafter investigate.
— from Timaeus by Plato

In the light of recent experience, my opinion now is, that here was the cause of all the nervous symptoms in this case.”
— from History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by P. C. (Peter Charles) Remondino

“El gobernador de Santo Domingo [D. Joseph de Olazo] en 25 de Julio de 1778: que obedecerá las ordenes recibidas, escusando mezclarse en las querellas de franceses é ingleses.” Holog.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

The world, my world, is generously and munificently lax, and though the limits of respectable endurance may be as hard to find as the 'fourth dimension of space', or the authenticity of the 'Book of Jasher', still for decency's sake we submit there are limits of decorum; certain proprietorial domains upon which we may not openly poach; and mcum et tuum though moribund, is not yet numbered with belief in the 'grail'.
— from At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Scott's love of romantic episode manifestly led him astray here.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

I loved to lose myself in imagination in immeasurable space; within the limits of real existences my heart was too tightly compressed; in the universe I was stifled; I would fain have launched myself into the infinite.
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley

54° 2´ 56´´; two lights, one revolving every minute and one fixed, visible 13 miles; stone tower, 60 feet high; erected 1790.
— from Lighthouses and Lightships A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

For the comparatively small subscription of six francs per annum, thousands of little ones received every month a number of the Journal des Enfants , stitched in blue paper, and with their own name on the wrapper.
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam