The Vice-President, Washington, D.C. Sir: My dear Mr. Vice President: Same as for President.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Gen. querendī , &c. mīrandī , &c. verendī , &c. partiendī , &c. querendus mīrandus verendus partiendus SUPINE. Acc.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The planet Venus, an hour high in the west, with all her volume and lustre recover'd, (she has been shorn and languid for nearly a year,) including an additional sentiment I never noticed before—not merely voluptuous, Paphian, steeping, fascinating—now with calm commanding seriousness and hauteur—the Milo Venus now.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

"But," thou wilt say, "if it is in my power to change my purpose, I shall make void providence, since I shall perchance change something which comes within its foreknowledge."
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

And, through the vehement desire of him and his mother: “Volta puer solvit, quae foemina voverat, Iphis.” Myself passing by Vitry le Francois, saw a man the Bishop of Soissons had, in confirmation, called Germain, whom all the inhabitants of the place had known to be a girl till two-and-twenty years of age, called Mary.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The unexpected discovery of an object of great monetary value (precious stone, valuable adhesive or impressed postage stamps (7 schilling, mauve, imperforate, Hamburg, 1866: 4 pence, rose, blue paper, perforate, Great Britain, 1855: 1 franc, stone, official, rouletted, diagonal surcharge, Luxemburg, 1878), antique dynastical ring, unique relic) in unusual repositories or by unusual means: from the air (dropped by an eagle in flight), by fire (amid the carbonised remains of an incendiated edifice), in the sea (amid flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict), on earth (in the gizzard of a comestible fowl).
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Whereupon he gets up and fishes out another more valuable pouch, somewhat ragged and old, the kind the actors now use on the stage, and offers it.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

Some little propensities betrayed in childhood may very probably survive; one man may prove by his dying words that he was congenitally witty, another tender, another brave.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

the soi disant fashionables, the most violent Protectionists, spread, are silenced.
— from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Sarah Tytler

The general diffusion of a military spirit; the unprincipled manner in which war has been conducted, and the encouragement which has been given to martial qualities, to the exclusion of all pacific virtues, have promoted the growth of the French military vices, particularly selfishness and licentiousness, among all ranks and descriptions of the people, and materially injured their general character, even in the remotest parts of the country.
— from Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Patrick Fraser Tytler

Mr. Van Pycke sat down and twirled his thin mustache, first one side and then the other, murmuring "By Jove!" over and over again in a most perplexed way.
— from The Alternative by George Barr McCutcheon

Oft have I seen my virtuous parent stray, O’er her lov’d garden pensive and forlorn; To cull the flowers each succeeding day, And view the beauties of a summer’s morn.
— from Characters from Life; Or, Moral Hints. In Verse by James Parkerson

"Ah! you have found a most valuable plant," said John, as he broke off one of the stems.
— from The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands by Roger Thompson Finlay

The scandalized monks sought an interview with the king and made vigorous protests, so that the queen was obliged to rise, and, clad only in her night apparel, sought accommodations in the castle, beseeching Saint Cuthbert's pardon for having polluted the holy confines with her presence.
— from Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James