Chaucer, Thisbe, the Martyr of Babylon (Legende of Good Women).
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch

I'm the Ring Tailed Panther, an' I can whip anything livin', man or beast, lion or grizzly bear.
— from The Texan Star: The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

The moveable tergum is rhomboidal, with the whole carinal portion marked only by lines of growth: it is only remarkable by the upper of the three articular ridges on the scutal margin being unusually distinct from the occludent margin.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

Not hardy pioneers full of love of adventure like many of our Virginia cavaliers, but delicately nurtured students, men for the chief part who prefer the cloister to the world, but have cheerfully sought these western wilds, moved only by love of God and man."
— from Sir Christopher: A Romance of a Maryland Manor in 1644 by Maud Wilder Goodwin

From the names of the inmates it becomes evident that some of these houses were in the main occupied by ladies of gentle birth, such as Willoughbys, Everards, Wingfields, Jerninghams, and the like.
— from English Monastic Life by Francis Aidan Gasquet