He entered and went spying all about and seeing the great multitude of tables set and the mighty preparations making in the kitchen and what not else provided against dinner, said in himself, "Of a truth this Abbot is as magnificent as folk say."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Many net embroidery patterns and damask stitches consist of a combination of ordinary running and darning, others of chain, stem and cross stitch.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

There lie buried in this church—Elizabeth, wife to John Fortescue; Katherine Stoketon; John Stratton; Philip Albert; John Fleming; Philip Agmondesham; William Skywith; John Norlong; John Baker; Thomas Alleyne; William Barton, mercer, 1410; William Melrith, mercer, one of the sheriffs, 1425; Simon Bartlet, mercer, 1428; Walter Chartsey, draper, one of the sheriffs 1430; Richard Rich, esquire, of London, the father, and Richard Rich, his son, mercer, one of the sheriffs 1442, deceased 1469, with this epitaph: “Respice quod opus est præsentis temporis æuum, Omne quod est, nihil est præter amare Deum.”
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Here are a few examples:— Respice quid prodest precentis temporis aebum Omne quod est, nichil est, preter amare deum.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

quae cum quibus cognatio; nec miretur cur ... a pinno quod est acutum [ sc fiat] securis utrimque habens aciem bipennis , ne illorum sequatur errorem qui, quia a pennis duabus hoc esse nomen existimant, pennas auium dici uolunt'.
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

She was not in a mood to be reassured, although she contrived to put on a smiling face when she met the newly engaged pair at dinner.
— from People of Position by Stanley Portal Hyatt

I have, however, eaten them at all seasons, and although I have found their crops distended with the leaves of the Kalmia, have never felt the least inconvenience after eating them, nor even perceived any difference of taste in their flesh.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

These two New Englanders placed a distinctly American stamp on the new paper.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

A servant was stationed near each person, and drew back the chair whilst he took his seat; Fräulein Perini stood up behind her chair and leaned her arms upon the back, held the mother-of-pearl cross in her folded hands, said a prayer, made the sign of the cross, and sat down.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

Now in the hour that shows the strong— The soul no evil powers affray— Drive straight against embattled Wrong:
— from Religion and the War by Yale University. Divinity School

There can be no doubt, however, that a large proportion of physicians, not excluding prominent and distinguished authorities, when casually confronted with the question whether sexual abstinence is harmless, will at once adopt the obvious path of least resistance and reply:
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

He was beginning to think the storm might clear in time—given the way Aegean downpours tended to come and go—and not even put a dent in the schedule.
— from Project Cyclops by Thomas Hoover