<mai` ameche zabi` almi>>, comincio` a gridar la fiera bocca, cui non si convenia piu` dolci salmi.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

But I was a Mahometan, and Zerbino a Christian, and my father refused his consent.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

Miss Skipwith talked of Buddha, and Confucius, and Mahomet, and Zuinglius, and Calvin, and Luther, as familiarly as if they had been her most intimate friends; and the Captain led her on and played her as he would have played a trout in one of the winding Hampshire streams.
— from Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The salts, HgX, as well as HgX 2 , are reduced by nascent hydrogen ( e.g. from Zn + H 2 SO 4 ), by such metals as zinc and copper, and also by many reducing agents—for example, hypophosphorous acid, the lowest grade of oxidation of phosphorus, by sulphurous anhydride, stannous chloride, &c.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Every word is dictated by the most ardent zeal and charity, and powerfully insinuates itself into the heart by the charm of an unparalleled sweetness, which gives to the strength of the most persuasive eloquence an irresistible force.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler