Most Editors read {allon} for {allelon} and alter the other words in various ways ({me toi ge on, me toigaron} etc.), taking {me} as in {me oti} ( ne dicam aliorum ).
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

He is indeed a very honest plain man, and, in my opinion, not likely to create any disturbance either in church or state.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Middleton’s book appeared a year after Hume’s essay Of Miracles , and it made out no such philosophic case as Hume’s against the concept of miracle; but it created at once, by its literary brilliance and its cogent argument, a sensation such as had thus far been made neither by Hume’s philosophic argument nor by Francklin’s anticipation of that.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Of course while on duty Ben Gibson, the young second mate, and I must of necessity hold to “quarterdeck etiquette;” he was “Mr. Gibson” 122
— from Swept Out to Sea Or, Clint Webb Among the Whalers by W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster

The Prince of Wales, in replying to the address, said:— "Ladies and Gentlemen,—I am most anxious, in my own name, and also in that of the Princess, to acknowledge the most cordial and kind words of the address which we have just heard read by the Vestry Clerk, and also for the kind expressions which have fallen from Mr. Murdoch.
— from Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 by King of Great Britain Edward VII

In July, 1855, Rev. James Theodore Holly, an accomplished black gentleman, now rector of St. Luke's Church, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S., was commissioned to [Pg 241] Faustin Soulouque, Emperor of Hayti, where he was received at court with much attention, interchanging many official notes during a month's residence there, with favorable inducements to laborers to settle.
— from Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party by Martin Robison Delany

Well, about them days I was down to Hartland Centre a-buyin' some fat cattle for Hanerford market, an' I met Orrin Nye drivin' his team pretty spry, for he see it was comin' on to snow; but when he catched sight o' me, he stopped the horses an' hollered out to me, so I stepped along an' asked what he wanted; an' he said there was a woman down to the Holler that had a cow to sell, an' he knowed I was apt to buy cow-critters along in the spring, so he'd spoke about it, for she was kinder in a hurry to sell, for she was goin' to move.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Hakuin similarly taught that a Zen which ignored society was hollow and meaningless, and its monks of no use to anybody.
— from The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover

It has been contended that choice, though from the condition of the moral agent it must of necessity be exclusively on one side , is nevertheless free; since it implies a voluntary preference of the mind.
— from Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk

The crevices in the ice yawned deep and blue and mysterious, and it made one nervous to traverse them.
— from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain